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America Quote by Jim Kerr

“For any band to make it in America is a colossal challenge and very few do because it takes time and so much money to tour endlessly.” quote by Jim Kerr — Download Open image

“For any band to make it in America is a colossal challenge and very few do because it takes time and so much money to tour endlessly.”

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For us every gig is a responsibility. We don't want people seeing us then saying, 'They're not as good as The Proclaimers.'

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I sleep five hours, I get up at 4 A.M., I take three or four cold showers a day. I do things differently.

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I mean, the thing with Simple Minds is that there's many Simple Minds within Simple Minds. There was definitely an electronic art-rock phase; a…

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When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.

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I go to bed at 8 P.M. and get up at 4:30 A.M. Who the hell is gonna live with that?

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My first-ever game was at the 1966 World Cup. The old man was a bricklayer's labourer, on a job in the north-east of England.…

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I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

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I think it's because of dreamers that the world turns.

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Every generation has its soundtrack.

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As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but…

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The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in…

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

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So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of…

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Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,…

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I'm gonna bring America together.

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In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

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America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the…

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