5,300 Quotes About America

  • Author Tim Brooks
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    No, I think George Johnson had to march to the beat of the drum -- that was very much in the hands of white America at that time.

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  • Author Tim Burton
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    A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.

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  • Author Tina Brown
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    With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.

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  • Author Tina Brown
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    I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.

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  • Author Tina Brown
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    What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

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  • Author Tom Brokaw
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    The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

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  • Author Tom Brokaw
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    We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11, in which al-Qaeda's attacks on America launched the nation into three wars - against Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State.

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  • Author Tom Brokaw
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    While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades, ... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

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  • Author Tom Brokaw
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    While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

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