Coming To America Quotes

• I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

  Louie Anderson

  Money, Years, Rolling

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• No journey is too great,
  when one finds what one seeks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Journey

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Greed, Listening, Nausea

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• In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Firsts, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.

  Jack Williams

  Years, America, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

  Rand Paul

  Clever, Paris, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I looked at the pilgrims coming to America. In their first year, they decided to try a communist experiment. And the first year of the pilgrims, they established this socialistic concept: 'Well, we have all this land before us - let us all work it together.' Oh, how wonderful it sounded. 'Let us all work it together, and we will share in the produce of the land.' They almost starved to death! Almost half of them died, that very first year.

  Ted Cruz

  Years, Land, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

  Chinua Achebe

  Doctors, America, Leaving

  "Things fall apart: Chinua Achebe and Nigeria" by Tolu Ogunlesi, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.'

  Conan O'Brien

  America, Grandfather, Immigration

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• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Hate

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

  Akhil

  Thinking, America, Immigration

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• I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.

  Trevor Noah

  Strong, Home, America

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I studied and worked in a Chinese restaurant to support myself. People would say to me 'Oh you must be missing home', but I had grown up hard. I was so happy to be there. I had never even been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

  Wendi Deng Murdoch

  Home, Doors, America

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Running, Brother, Growing Up

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Stupid, Holiday, Thinking

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• I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

  Ryan Reynolds

  America, Scary, Bigger Better

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• Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and ladies, he's single!

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Children, Law

  "Bill Maher: Pope ‘Used to be a Nazi’; Compares Church to Cult, Bear Stearns". www.newsbusters.org. April 14, 2008.

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• Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Schwarzenegger Opposes Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Years, California

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• Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

  Tim Roth

  America, Extraordinary, Has Beens

  "Interview With Tim Roth" by Steven Horn, www.ign.com. August 1, 2001.

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• I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, People, Haiti

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like "Coming to America" (1988) or "Misery" (1990) or "Moonstruck" (1987).

  Morena Baccarin

  Years, America, Tvs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

  Shaun Alexander

  Two, America, Boomerang

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