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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night.
- Nov 07, 2020
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020