Quotes about america
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on. Ralph Boston
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater
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Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. Richie Sambora
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I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make. Richard Marx
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I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
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Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. Richard Lugar
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense. Magic Johnson
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So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time. Matthew Vaughn
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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. Marvin Olasky
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We have this concern that this strain of influenza technically, the H5N1 strain will reach America in weeks or months.
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We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change. Josh Schwartz
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We work to make this country the kind of America they (U.S. veterans) were willing to die for, ... That's an America where the idea of sacred honor still has the power to stir men's souls. My solitary, solitary hope is that 100 years from today people will look back at what we've done and say, 'They kept the faith.' Henry Hyde
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If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that. Rick Allen
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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. Richard Neal
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I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze. Richard Petty
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What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again. Richard Mourdock
american-educator
All of the studies we do in my group are quantified. Robert Sternberg
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Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.
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In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
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The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
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And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
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In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.
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It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. Ruben Blades
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I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that. Ravi Shankar
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So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever. Rachel Maddow
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. Quincy Jones
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Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all. Sarah Brady
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There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't. Rowan Atkinson
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Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together. Rudy Giuliani
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One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
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I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.
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There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.