John Spratt Quotes

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Young
  • Heartless

• 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.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Up
  • Country
  • Down

• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Way
  • Understanding

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Look

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Country
  • America
  • Me

• Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Country
  • School
  • Help

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I'm sad, upset, and disheartened with the trolling that happens on social media... At the end of the day, this whole homophobia is so disheartening and upsetting. And then they say, 'Why don't you speak about your sexuality? You could be iconic in this country.' But I don't want to be iconic anywhere. I want to live my life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I have always loved fashion and feel it's another way to express my creativity. It's art and beauty combined.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Creativity

• Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Time
  • Control
  • Discipline

• The Eastern Europeans invested too many of their hopes in the notion that somehow or other the missile shield, even if directed at Iran, would reinforce their security links with the U.S. vis-à-vis Russia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hopes
  • Iran
  • Europeans

• If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  

  Pete Coors
  • Age
  • Drinking

• As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Doubt

• Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

  

  John Spratt
  • Country
  • Running