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• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
• What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
• Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
• There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
• God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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