Gene La Rocque Quotes
I hate it when they say, He gave his life for his country. They don`t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
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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.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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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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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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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.
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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
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As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
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Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.
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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
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I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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Every thinking person fears nuclear war and every technological nation plans for it. Everyone knows it's madness, and every country has an excuse.
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Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
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If the country is to flourish, capital must be invested in enterprise. But those who seek to draw upon other people's money must be wholly candid regarding the facts on which the investor's judgment is asked.
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I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.
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When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.
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I hate it when they say, He gave his life for his country. They don`t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
