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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
Author:
Rachel Zoe
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
Author:
Donnie Yen
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Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Author:
Martin Yan
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Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.
Author:
Martin Yan
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America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
Author:
Jeremiah Wright
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Author:
Frank Wright
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
Author:
Claire Wolfe
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My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Author:
Frank Wolf
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America is good enough for us.
Author:
John Wise
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
Author:
John Wise
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America is practically owned by China.
Author:
Tom Winnifrith
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I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
Author:
Bert Williams
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
Author:
Kim Wilde
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Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
Author:
Paul Whiteman
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
Author:
William White
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
Author:
William White
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Author:
Theodore White
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Author:
Theodore White
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Author:
Theodore White
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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Author:
Theodore White
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The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.
Author:
Ron White
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Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality.
Author:
Reggie White
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Author:
Edmund White
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Author:
Barry White
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I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
Author:
Wil Wheaton
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Author:
Kanye West
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
Author:
Allen West
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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
Author:
H. Wells
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Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.
Author:
William Weld
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Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
Author:
Caspar Weinberger
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Author:
Alan Watts
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Author:
Harold Washington
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Author:
George Washington
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We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Author:
Rick Warren
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By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
Author:
John Warner
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Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
Author:
John Warner
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
Author:
Jack Warner
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Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
Author:
Rob Walton
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
Author:
Rob Walton
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America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.
Author:
John Walsh
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The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.
Author:
James Walsh
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The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.
Author:
Greg Walden
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The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.
Author:
Paul Volcker
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It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Author:
Jon Voight
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This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Author:
Jon Voight
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We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.
Author:
Jon Voight
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Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.
Author:
David Vitter
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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
Author:
David Viscott
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People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.
Author:
Tom Vilsack
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
Author:
Ann Veneman
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
Author:
John Updike
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This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.
Author:
Peter Ueberroth
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I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.
Author:
Bonnie Tyler
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I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
Author:
Bonnie Tyler
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I've quoted Lost in America several times.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Author:
Donald Trump
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.
Author:
Thuy Trang
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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.
Author:
Pia Toscano
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There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
Author:
Rip Torn
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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
Author:
Mel Torme
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Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.
Author:
Peter Tork
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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Discussion in America means dissent.
Author:
James Thurber
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
Author:
Bennie Thompson
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Author:
Clarence Thomas
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
Author:
Randall Terry
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Author:
Randall Terry
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
Author:
Randall Terry
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America should function as a Christian nation.
Author:
Randall Terry
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Author:
Randall Terry
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What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
Author:
Randall Terry
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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People want to see this America, this real America.
Author:
Michael Taylor
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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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To me, America is just another market.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Author:
Amy Tan
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
Author:
Gay Talese
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
Author:
William Taft
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We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
Author:
Bob Taft
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Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
Author:
Max Sydow
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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
Author:
John Sweeney
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I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.
Author:
Helen Suzman
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The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
Author:
Kim Sung
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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.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
Author:
William Sumner
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We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.
Author:
Larry Summers
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
Author:
Joe Strummer
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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
Author:
Josiah Strong
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Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.
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Julius Streicher
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The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
Author:
Mark Strand
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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Harriet Stowe
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I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.
Author:
Robert Stone
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What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.
Author:
Robert Stone
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
Author:
Matt Stone
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If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
Author:
Michael Stipe
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I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.
Author:
Stephen Stills
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The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Author:
Mark Steyn
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I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
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Patrick Stewart
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!
Author:
Rachel Stevens
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Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
Author:
Neal Stephenson
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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Stendhal
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
Author:
Ringo Starr
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The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
Author:
Henry Stanley
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It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
Author:
Debbie Stabenow
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The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
Author:
Debbie Stabenow
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I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
Author:
Morgan Spurlock
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In America everything's about who's number one today.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
Author:
John Spratt
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What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
Author:
John Spratt
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In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
Author:
Penelope Spheeris
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And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
Author:
Margaret Spellings
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I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.
Author:
Scott Speedman
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If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
Author:
Bubba Sparxxx
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
Author:
John Sousa
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
Author:
John Sousa
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
Author:
John Sousa
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
Author:
George Soros
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.
Author:
DeForest Soaries
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
Author:
Vic Snyder
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Author:
Tony Snow
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I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Author:
Will Smith
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Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.
Author:
Thorne Smith
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
Author:
L. Smith
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Author:
Kate Smith
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For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
Author:
Howard Smith
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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.
Author:
Al Smith
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Author:
Peter Singer
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That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
Author:
Nina Simone
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Author:
Nina Simone
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We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.
Author:
Luiz Silva
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America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
Author:
Clare Short
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Author:
Hu Shih
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
Author:
Archie Shepp
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I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.
Author:
Hugh Shelton
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I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Author:
Gail Sheehy
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I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.
Author:
George Shearing
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We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
Author:
Alia Shawkat
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Author:
George Shaw
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Author:
George Shaw
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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America wants its respect.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.
Author:
John Shadegg
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Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
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Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
Author:
Bud Selig
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The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Author:
Harry Seidler
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Author:
Anton Seidl
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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Author:
Anton Seidl
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.
Author:
Kathleen Sebelius
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Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
Author:
Kathleen Sebelius
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
Author:
Leah Sears
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Author:
Brent Scowcroft
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I get all fired up about aging in America.
Author:
Willard Scott
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I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.
Author:
Tim Scott
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We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.
Author:
Tim Scott
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Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
Author:
Peter Scott
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I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
Author:
David Schwimmer
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Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next "Batman" movie?
Author:
Joel Schumacher
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We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
Author:
Howard Schultz
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And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.
Author:
Ron Schiller
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And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
Author:
Adam Schiff
