- 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
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
- Not Talking
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- Nov 07, 2020
FHM magazine is one of the cheesiest magazines in America. I'm not talking about Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan... FHM is the lowest. FHM? Come on!
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.
- Gulf Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
- Energy Bill
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
- Glamour
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- Nov 07, 2020