Quotes about america
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When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters. John Sexton
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When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people. Greg Ginn
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When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise. Ron Chernow
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I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear. Chris Evans
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of. Duane G. Carey
american-astronaut
Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
american-astronaut chance joke whenever
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
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And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were.
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One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.
american-musician
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.
american-musician coming lies
The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.
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I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
american-musician future
The future is wider than vision, and has no end.
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I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
american-musician dreams life married poet time
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
american-musician art
I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! Donald Fagen
american-writer stated
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. Dorothea Brande
american-author beats happens might
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. Donna Leon
american-coach good gracious
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. Knute Rockne
american-coach home liked
At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.
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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper. Tabitha Soren
american-novelist
You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
american-journalist finished happened second
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Tom Wolfe
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At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
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Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back. Tina Turner
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Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. Timothy Noah
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The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.