America Quotes
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Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.
Barack Obama -
I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.
Harry Shum, Jr.
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The only good thing about America is that you killed John Lennon.
Nicholas Allen Jones -
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
Bill Phillips -
In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.
Nicolas Berggruen -
After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.
Barack Obama -
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Norman Granz -
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
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The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.
David Bergland -
Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.
Peter Navarro -
There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.
Barack Obama -
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It’s Time For Black America To Return The Favor.
Elbert Guillory -
While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.
Michael Huffington -
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
Satish Kumar -
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).
Morena Baccarin -
America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
L. Neil Smith -
Harper Lee was legendarily private. I've never known such a private woman in my life. It's no surprise that she left Monroeville, a gossipy little southern town where everybody wants to know everybody's business, and went to the most anonymous city in America.
Wayne Flynt -
In America, we eat until we're full, which means we usually go past the point of satiety because satiety actually follows digestion.
Harley Pasternak -
There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
William Gibson
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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.
Eric Linklater -
If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.
Molly Ivins -
We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.
William H. Macy -
Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.
Woody Hayes