- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
- Entertain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps America works like this: Presidencies swing, as reactions to each other, like a pendulum. My optimistic belief is it is how we keep our country in balance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2011, I started a nonprofit organization, Venture for America, to help bring talented young entrepreneurs to create thousands of jobs in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Birmingham, Baltimore and other cities around the country.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof covered in row upon row of solar panels, embodying the renewable future that the batteries manufactured within are meant to sustain.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have taken an oath already to the United States of America to protect and defend the Constitution. That is the only oath I will take.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.
- Nov 07, 2020