America Quotes - Page 32

• To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.

  Jerome Cady

  England And America, Russia, Enemy

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• Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Stars

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• Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

  Daniel Hannan

  Europe, Democracy, Favors

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• I'm
  gonna spread out
  over America
  intrude
  my proud blackness
  all
  over the place.

  Mari Evans

  Proud, Spread, Blackness

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

  Donald Freed

  Father, Bunch, Founding

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• I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

  Donald Freed

  Dream, American Dream, Nightmare

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• We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.

  Philip K. Howard

  Thinking, Law, Goal

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• Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

  Paul Krugman

  Money, Gold, Panic

  "Golden Instability", krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. August 26, 2012.

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• I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Media, Information

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• You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

  Shannon Lucid

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

  Marco Rubio

  World, Foreign Policy, Willing

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• How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

  Sonny Rollins

  People, Humanity, Ironic

  1958 Statement on sleeve of Freedom Suite.

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• Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, Together, Industrialization

  Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books

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• There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1870). “American Institutions”, p.388

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• America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Islamic, Russia, Sound

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  Iraq, Generations, Tolls

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• A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

  Mark McKinnon

  Would Be, Dangerous, Presidency

  "Santorum Is Dangerous" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. March 13, 2009.

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• Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Writing, Gun

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  Quality, Musician, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, War, Men

  "Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship" by J. F. C. Fuller, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Men, White Man

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

  Brad Pitt

  Strong, Marketing, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Country, Holiday, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Mean, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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