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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
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to.
- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020
India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020