America Quotes
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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.
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Major danger lie for America? That we could very well be defeated oversees and at home. And the source of it is clearly that we have yet to find a politician in either partywho's willing to tell the American people the truth.
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There won’t be any revolution in America…The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.
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Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.
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When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.
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… and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night.
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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.
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I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like "Coming to America" (1988) or "Misery" (1990) or "Moonstruck" (1987).
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It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.
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What America needs is a political revolution.
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Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
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We celebrate our diversity, we lift people up, and we make America even greater.
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I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.
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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.
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
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I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
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If you want to understand America, it's slavery.
Colson Whitehead
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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
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The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
