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America Quotes - Page 57

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

"Interview with Anatoly Karpov "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov"". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

Woodrow Wilson, Pope Benedict XV, James Wilford Garner, Frank D. Garland (1917). “Why We Fight Germany: Being the President's Addresses Relating to the Great War and His Reply to the Pope's Peace Proposal”

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.230, Theatre Communications Group

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.179, Kodansha America

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Moshe Dayan (1981). “Breakthrough: a personal account of the Egypt-Israel peace negotiations”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson