North America Quotes

• We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market.

  Paul Cellucci

  Energy, Canada, Integrating

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• I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Sports, Fun

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• There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.

  Joseph Boyden

  Thinking, Fire, Civilization

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

  Jim Balsillie

  Buying In, America, Noise

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• If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.

  Wayne Hays

  New York, Stars, Coffee

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• The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.

  Malcolm X

  Simple, Men, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.321, Ballantine Books

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• The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.321, Ballantine Books

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• There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.

  Dan Rather

  America, Islam, Jew

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• 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Truth, Pride

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• Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.

  Grant Morrison

  Crazy, Mean, White

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• You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

  Ian Fleming

  Nuts, America, Together

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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• Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.

  Rick Riordan

  America, Bird, Giants

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• Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Wild Life, Ideas, America

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• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, America

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• It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

  John Malkovich

  Europe, America, Different

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• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  David Cameron

  Men, Europe, Land

  "British PM says stick with EU but promises referendum". "AM" with Rachael Brown, www.abc.net.au. January 24, 2013.

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• I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  America, Parent, Way

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Re-Evaluates Career: 'I Will Never Do Another Movie I Would Not Like'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2008.

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• I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

  James Dobson

  Country, America, People

  "Dr. James Dobson Sets Record Straight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Management

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• Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

  Arthur Erickson

  America, Building, Profession

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

  Nadia Giosia

  Dark, America, Cooking

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• My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

  Steve Kanaly

  America, Focus, Enjoy

  "Uncut Channel 4 transcript exclusive to Ultimate Dallas". Ultimate Dallas interview, www.ultimatedallas.com.

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• Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

  Denis Leary

  Fire, America, People

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  Dan Lipinski

  Home, Animal, America

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• George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Thinking, America, Hands

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