Mario Monti Quotes
I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
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That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.
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The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.
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I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
