America Quotes
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Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.
Gene Wilder
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Wall Street has come to America's heartland, really. The only thing missing are the skyscrapers, you know?
Dennis Quaid
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The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.
Sergio Leone
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
Martin Amis
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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
William Allen White
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
Henry Louis Gates
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.
John Linder
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Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business.
William M. Daley
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Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.
Ana Navarro
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
John Mason Brown
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
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There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.
Lenny Abrahamson
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This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.
Barack Obama
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
Sean Penn
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It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.
Pete Hoekstra
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
Michael Harrington
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We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.
Michelle Alexander
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The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.
Wesley Pruden
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I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We americans have made jazz funny.
Paul Provenza
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In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.
Corrine Brown
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My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.
Barack Obama
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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead