- Me
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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
- Clean Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's brightest minds are charting a course to a clean energy future that will provide for our health, safety, and prosperity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrongful convictions need to be addressed in America. There are a lot of Brian Banks behind bars right now.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
- Envious
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my break in America came a little too early. It would've been nice to have a few more years to find out what I'm like as an actor without a camera on my face.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020