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		Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Somerhalder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Mckellen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marvin Olasky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neal Brennan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Duhigg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Kaluuya
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				W. E. B. Du Bois
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Allen Ginsberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jacki Weaver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Idris Elba
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lafcadio Hearn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Oldman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orson Welles
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randy Weber
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dinesh D'Souza
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jacqueline Bisset