Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
'It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.'
Quotes to Explore
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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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 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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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.
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'It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.'
