Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming to America Got a dream to take them there They're coming to America Got a dream they come to share They're coming to America They're coming to America
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Related You're the best gay friend I've ever had! AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE theyre missing whole streets. SAM WRIGHT Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore. ALEX HAMILTON Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary. TIM ROTH Most everybody needs clothes. Theyre going to need clothing--jeans, T-shirts, socks, the whole thing... CAROL JONES Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals. THEODOR ADORNO If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. LAO TZU That casual kiss on my cheek would have meant nothing up until recently, I realized I was in love wi... SUMMER MICHAELS Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones... IAN WILLIAMSON For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber cal... AMERICA I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, b... AKHIL SHARMA The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f... AUBREY DANIELS We are coming to win and I think so much of Evans that I'm coming to Cardiff so we can go back with ... DON KING My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER Splits generally are positive for stocks if theyre done at the right time. The timing on this one lo... IAN WITTERS The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America, ROGER DONALDSON It is a culture coming out of the Iron Age to 20th century America. There will always be a clash wit... CHU WU Discover the delights of innovation & dream, you have yet not discovered.The future belongs to those... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Dare to dream. Don’t just let your dreams sit in your mind and rot. If you have a big dream or vis... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - m... WYCLEF JEAN Immigrants have been coming to our shores for generations to live the dream that is America. They wa... NIKKI HALEY A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I always like coming to Canada. It feels like Canada is the Scotland of North America. And that's a ... NICK MCCARTHY The thing i hate most about rock and roll is the tie dyed tshirts, unless theyre died with blood and... KURT COBAIN to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just se... TYLER OAKLEY Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e... LILY COLLINS It's always been a dream for most Italians to come see America. ALFONSO NUNZIANTE Small business owners really make America go, ... If it weren't for us supplying people with jobs, A... MAGIC JOHNSON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom... BECKY LYNCH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. ARCHIBALD MACLEISH It has the shape of a sailboat, right in line with the architecture of the river and reminiscent of ... ERIC KEY I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do ... EDDIE MURPHY Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America... ANN RINALDI GM and its dealers are coming off an extremely successful marketing effort with 'Keep America Rollin... BILL LOVEJOY If we don't stop immigration - this torrent of immigrants coming in - we're not going to be ... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. GEORGE WASHINGTON I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the p... RICHARD PRYOR I went to Zimbabwe...I know how white people feel in America now, relaxed! Cause when I heard the po... RICHARD PRYOR I was proud to see those American flags. I wanted them to wave them high so that everyone -- includi... CID WILSON Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, a... BASHAR AL-ASSAD I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords ... CLIVE DAVIS I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Rich... TAMRON HALL If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change... PHIL ROBERTSON The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feel... AMERICA FERRERA I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much. AMERICA FERRERA When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of America... AMERICA FERRERA What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for... AMERICA FERRERA My siblings are my best friends. AMERICA FERRERA If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things tha... AMERICA FERRERA I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are p... AMERICA FERRERA I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. AMERICA FERRERA I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I... AMERICA FERRERA I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Holly... AMERICA FERRERA I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. AMERICA FERRERA When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you ... AMERICA FERRERA What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Ever... AMERICA FERRERA I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insur... AMERICA FERRERA I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza. AMERICA FERRERA I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. ... AMERICA FERRERA My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the pol... RICHARD PRYOR There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's... JON ANDERSON In America we're looking for future stars and we're coming up short a bit, ... There is so much now ... CHRIS EVERT Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER to bring the world to America and America to the world in a serious and broad way. BRUCE BLAIR i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America... DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. MERYL STREEP People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a l... DAVID BYRNE America is different to everywhere. BRYAN BROWN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in such a compromising posi... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET People care about America. People love America. People want America to treat it with dignity and res... ALI NOORANI There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. T... BARACK OBAMA I come to America for my American dream and I thought my American dream is gone. And then it comes b... TAIKI LEE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD
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