Usa Quotes - Page 14

• If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Thinking, China, British

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Art, Philosophy, Government

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• I've known Kyle O'Reilly since 2009. Me and him actually met each other when we had our very first match against each other for Gabe Sapolsyky's DragonGate USA show. Me and Kyle went in there and we had a match that kind of made waves throughout the independent scene as far as us getting our names out there. We both got signed to Ring of Honor at the exact same time.

  Adam Cole

  Independent, Names, Honor

  Source: 411mania.com

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• As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.

  Kerri Walsh

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  School, Thinking, Dna

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

  Robin Lim

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Well, we're [USA] not looking for an ally; what we're looking for is a stable, democratic government that is not beholden to anyone in the region and is able to be secure within its own borders and have its own policy.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Allies, Borders

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm confident because of the - what we [USA government] call the strategic agreement we're now working on with them, we will be deeply involved within every aspect of their government from helping them improve their agriculture, to train air traffic controllers, to train pilots for the F-16s they're buying. So we'll have a deep relationship.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Air, Agreement

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• It's a problem that we [USA] think the Iranians are backing Hezbollah; the Iranians are backing terrorist activity in many parts of that region.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Hezbollah, Problem

  "Transcript: Interview With Joe Biden". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.wbur.org. December 13, 2011.

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• I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Beach, Girlfriend, Missing

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I also watched boxing all the time and Tuesday Night Fights on USA and just kept hitting my heavy back in the garage.

  Robbie Lawler

  Fighting, Night, Tuesday

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

  Neil Young

  Country, Democracies Have, Political

  "Neil Young permits Trump to Keep on Rockin'", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2016.

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• I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Cycling

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• He may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the reputation of the USA, for crying out loud. I can give you a list of Democrats who you seem to want to sidle up to who are doing their level best to destroy this country as it was founded, who are doing their level best to transform this country away from its intentions as founded. For crying out loud.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Character, Giving

  "Meg Whitman’s Treason". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 3, 2016.

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• Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

  Benjamin Carson

  Squares, Principles, Consistent

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

  Ted Cruz

  Taken, Path, Bankruptcy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Despair, Young

  "POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Ted Cruz". "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.

  Peter Medawar

  Religious, Humorous, School

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• I love how everybody just brings a different personality to the mix and everyone's different in their own way. There's a lot of energy - that's the vibe of Team USA.

  Gabby Douglas

  Team, Personality, Energy

  "Gabby Douglas and Leslie Jones Are Texting Now, Thanks to #Love4GabbyUSA". Interview with Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. August 22, 2016.

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• There is an energy in the USA that will have to be dealt with, will have to be acknowledged and coped with. There are people who feel that they've lost ground, lost access to government - people whose quality of life has been affected.

  Jay Roach

  Government, People, Quality

  Source: deadline.com

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• Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

  Eric Nicol

  War, America, Littles

  Eric Nicol, Alan Walker (1972). “Still a Nicol: the best of Eric Nicol”

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• Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Littles, Soil

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

  H. G. Wells

  Government, Ostriches, Eagles

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• The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Matter, Treason, Highest

  "A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

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• One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Cities, One Day, Telephones

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