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"Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va.""
"Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans."
"Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it."
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution."
"America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again."
"In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope."
"My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best.""
"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."
"America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent."
"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
"You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America."
"The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American."
"The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left."
"It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are."
"Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated."
"America always thought it was helping Pakistan. But if it hadn't helped Pakistan, Pakistan would have been a stronger country."
"First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain."
"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."
"Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle."
