America Quotes
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It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
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I'm not in Captain America because it takes place in the '40s. Both he and Bruce Banner are relationships that evolve during this - two more rock stars that I got to get on stage, ready to play ball.
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I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.
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I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
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America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
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We'll break America, we've been there every year for five years. We'll make it, because we're good and if something's good there are enough cool people in the States to pick up on it. We'll do it and we'll do it the right way...our way.
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I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community.
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
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Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
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Segregation. There was another one. America sees this now but it took a civil rights movement to betray their age. And 50 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court betrayed the age May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education came down and put the lie to the idea that separate can ever really be equal. Amen to that.
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America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
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Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.
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America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
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It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
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It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.
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In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.
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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
