Only In America Quotes

• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

  Don King

  Country, Hate, America

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• Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

  Don King

  America, Space, People

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• Only in America could a Don King happen.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Happens

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990). King adopted 'Only in America'as a catchphrase, billing himself as Don'Only in America' King.

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• Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Barack

  "Only in America!: An Interview with Don King". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Rights, India

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

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• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  Rafael Cruz

  Dream, Country, Greatness

  "Ted Cruz's Father Talks About Latinos, Conservatives and the American Dream", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, America, Europe

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• America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Responsibility

  "Some Notes On My American Impressions". selftaughtcoders.com. 1921.

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• Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

  John Fugelsang

  Military, War, Gun

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• Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to design a learning environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was naturally good at doing, you would design the education system we currently have, not only in America, but all over the world!

  John Medina

  America, Design, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Irs, Agents

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• Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck,
  And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

  Daniel Dumile

  Attitude, Rap, Self

  Song: Rhymes Like Dimes, Album: Operation: Doomsday

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  Pat Morita

  America, Comedy, Kind

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

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• Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Kings, America, Terrorism

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Heart, Men

  "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Honesty, Native American

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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• For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Lying, Government Lies, America

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