"I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional."

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Source : "Are America's Best Days Behind Us?" by Fareed Zakaria, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 3, 2011.

Fareed Zakaria

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.”
“Good music is wine turned to sound”
“When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.”
“When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.”
“Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.”
“I like action more than anything touchy-feely.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.”
“History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.”

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