America Quotes
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I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
Shakira
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When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that's one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There's a big population that buys our trucks. It's their life - or it's their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It's a work truck.
Mary Barra
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I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
William Labov
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan
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We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
Hamid Karzai
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When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin
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When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
Martin Heinrich
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You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
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Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
Mark McKinnon
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What America has in Hillary Clinton is a potential president with the charisma but not the competence of Angela Merkel, and the ethics of Dilma Rousseff.
Pat Buchanan
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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
Emily Mortimer
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Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.
Mary Pipher
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San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
Chita Rivera
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Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
Bill Shuster
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I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
Alexander Haig
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You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
Martin Lawrence
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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.
Jason Ralph
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
Pat Buchanan
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America is nation of people striving to make life better for themselves and for their families.
Kevin McCarthy
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I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.
Chloe Zhao
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Aw:North America|Anything in life is possible and YOU make it happen'! - Jack LaLanne: Live young forever, Robert Kennedy Publishing, Mississauga 2009, P. 15
Jack LaLanne
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
Marian Wright Edelman
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When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.
Byron Allen
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We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
Yvette Clarke