America Quotes
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Francis Parkman
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America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
Sukarno
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Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.
Eric Metaxas
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You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
Anna Deavere Smith
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
Billy Sunday
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I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.
Matthew Rhys
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.
Kelly Osbourne
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We have an epidemic of gun violence in America, and in trying to understand how that has happened, part of what we need to do is help equip our children to respond not with fear but with kindness. This has to be the way we go forward.
Elizabeth Esty
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
John Cusack
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America, in all its institutions, whether it be the family or government, has forgotten and neglected its children.
Janet Reno
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Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
Raymond Sokolov
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In America everyone's fast.
Scott Dixon
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Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.
Jacques Delors
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Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
Eliza Leslie
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I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.
Josephine Baker
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Arthur Erickson
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It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?
Matthew Perry
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Moving to America gave me the opportunity to learn music and fall in love with songwriting.
Wurld
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It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.
Geoff Dyer
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Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.
Ashley Jensen
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Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'
Kevin Bleyer