America Quotes
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It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!
David Beckham
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I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Christopher Darden
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My discussion is one that has gone all the way from Fistful of Dollars through Once Upon a Time in America. But if you look closely at all these films, you find in them the same meanings, the same humor, the same point of view, and, also, the same pains.
Sergio Leone
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So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.
Ogden Nash
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I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.
Barack Obama
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But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.
Barack Obama
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin Crisp
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When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
William Christopher Handy
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I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.
Barack Obama
