Lamar Alexander Quotes
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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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.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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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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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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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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If you look around in London, there is a lot of dirty money. People see it as a safe haven: a bolthole to rely on if they are criminal or politically exposed in their own country.
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I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American.
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The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
