Marek Hlasko Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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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.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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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.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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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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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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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.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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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.
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.
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The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
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A writer without his country is nothing.
