Barry Humphries Quotes
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Barry Humphries
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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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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
Landon Liboiron
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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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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
Ed Speleers
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
Lady Gregory
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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.
Bart Stupak
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
Patricia Marx
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
Gary Johnson
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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
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
Famke Janssen
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
Ban Ki-moon
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
Herodotus
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I am a person who sings. I know not everyone is, but that won't keep the Spirit from putting a song in your heart.
James A. Forbes
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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
Dave Eggers
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The City of Wilkes-Barre is moving forward in the right direction, ... Extensive, well-thought-out projects like the Waller Street replacement will prepare the city for its future.
F. Thomson Leighton
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I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.
Jeff Koons
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Barry Humphries
