Bulent Ecevit Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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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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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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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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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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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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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
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Once you find your dream, risk everything to make it come true.
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I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
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Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.
