Jazz is America’s classical music.
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Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
Abraham FlexnerAbraham Flexner The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
AberjhaniAberjhani Unfortunately, cinema critics are very few in America, 400-500 people, but there are more critics of Iran.
Abbas KiarostamiAbbas Kiarostami I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
Aaron SorkinAaron Sorkin In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism – this idea of my own personal fulfillment.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
Aaron SorkinAaron Sorkin In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
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