"You're nothing in America if you don't have debt."
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"I love America, but I don't like it."
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"Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective. Through my research, I obviously learned a lot, much of which made me sad, upset, disappointed and even angry, regarding what Jesse had to go through. Not only was he a black man in America during an age of high racial tension and segregation, but he was also living in the middle of the Great Depression - it was very difficult times for him and his family."
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"If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous."
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"In America, they really do mythologize people when they die."
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"I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas."
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"Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection]."
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"For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side."
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"I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God."
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"I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America."
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"It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view."
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"Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic."
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"Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby."
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"To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"I was excited to explore and see the world. I'd been traveling since I was 6 months old, so I was never fearful of getting on a plane and going somewhere - even America."
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"I believe in the country America used to be."
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"This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible."
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"Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the vulgarian."
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"FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'."
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