Famous Quotes: America

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
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I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
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I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
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Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
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I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
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Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
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