Alexander Guchkov Quotes

Gentlemen, some time ago the country realised that our motherland was in danger. Since then we have gone a step further, for our motherland is on the edge of an abyss.

Alexander Guchkov

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• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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  • France

• 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
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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
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• We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
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• New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Country
  • New
  • Sheep

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
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• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
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• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
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• Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Long
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  • Want

• 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
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• It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Country
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  • Yourself

• My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Country
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  • America

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
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• It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Imagination
  • Danger
  • Vocation

• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Mistake

• I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• Gentlemen, some time ago the country realised that our motherland was in danger. Since then we have gone a step further, for our motherland is on the edge of an abyss.

  

  Alexander Guchkov
  • Country
  • Danger
  • Abyss