America Quotes
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I enjoyed it from a very early age. When I had to make my own living after college, I decided to give doing what I enjoyed most a shot as a profession. It worked out and I’ve never had to 'work' for a living since. If I hadn’t gotten so lucky, there were plenty of options open to me being, after all, a young educated white male in America.
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Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
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I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home for brief periods and took off again. So the population was very fluid, and suddenly it was as if the continent tilted west. The whole population slid west. It took 10 years for America to coalesce into a new culture. And the new culture happened in San Francisco, not New York.
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Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
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I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
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I've always been a fan of country music. It's America's music - I love the songs, love the lyrics.
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The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
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Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
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When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.
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You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable. Our friendship with Israel is deep and enduring. And so we believe that any lasting peace must acknowledge the very real security concerns that Israel faces every single day.
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This is America! We're the greatest nation on the planet, so just love each other, man.
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We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
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Small business is the backbone of America.
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A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.
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I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
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When you say 'radical right' in America, people think Ku Klux Klan. They think of something violent, racist.
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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
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I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
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And freedom is what America means to the world.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
