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America Quotes
America as pride, worry, and unfinished mission.
This collection holds contrasting feelings about the country: pride in being both African American and American, and a more anxious sense that the America someone loves is slipping away. For a wider view of national pride, see Country quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.
- Nov 07, 2020
After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching the director and his team bring America circa 1775 to life. From that moment on, I was hooked.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.
- Extraction
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- Nov 07, 2020
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.
- Abolition
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that Hillary Clinton wants to do to Central America what her husband did to Colombia is troubling.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's militarized brand of malignant exceptionalism is founded on the idea that the United States transcends history.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unraveling of America's long mid-century domestic consensus, which ran from about 1941 to 1966, had begun earlier, under Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020