Steven Heighton Quotes

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
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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.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
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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.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

  

  Dan Rather
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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

  

  Sally Kirkland
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• In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Country
  • Easy
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• Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• He said that, uh, there is an allegation that you have won elections on a communal card. I said, there are so many media persons here, they are not noting, but now they've started. You see, this is the tragedy of the country. Because when I was talking about development, they were not ready to note even! Now do you understand why I love Cho?

  

  Narendra Modi
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• Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Great
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• Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Country
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• I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.

  

  Jimmy Smits
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• The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

  

  Chief Joseph
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• If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus a low-quality one is the difference between driving a Jaguar and a VW Jetta across the country. They'll both get you there. But the Jaguar will give you a much smoother ride.

  

  Charlie Trotter
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• Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
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• Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Country

• I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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• I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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• Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

  

  William Everson
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• I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.

  

  Jim Edgar
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• I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

  

  Steven Heighton
  • Country
  • Nationalism
  • Absorbed