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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
- Family
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At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.
- Middle Class
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Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
- Hope
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I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.
- Must
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America must keep jihad out, especially when we know exactly where it is coming from.
- Ideas
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It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reagan won the Cold War by first restoring America's economy and military and then staring down an economically weakened Soviet Union. He knew defeating Russia couldn't be accomplished without laying the groundwork.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
- Dream
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My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
- Living
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America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country offers.
- God
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
- Letters
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
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- Nov 07, 2020