Country Quotes
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
Kathy Acker
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Mr. Greenwood, when moving the Amendment yesterday, told us that the war would shake many strongly held views. I fear that this war will do very much more than that. The war will bring about changes which may be fundamental and revolutionary in the economic and social life of this country. On that we are all agreed.
Anthony Eden
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
Lev Grossman
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But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.
Barack Obama, Sr.
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
Paddy Ashdown
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Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
Xavi
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He had an inspiration and went to the Quinta's kitchen and stole two large tins of tea. He reckoned it was time Kate did something for her country and there were few finer gestures than donating good China tea to riflemen.
Bernard Cornwell
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One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
Ken Buck
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin
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When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.
Martin Parr
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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur
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When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
Alex North
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
Barack Obama
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It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
Jim Sullivan
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The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.
Augusto Pinochet
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I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.
Gabriel Byrne
