Country Quotes
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My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
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Russian police force, fortunately, so far, do not use batons, tear gas or any other extreme measures of instilling order, something that we often see in other countries, including in the United States. Speaking of opposition, let us recall the movement Occupy Wall Street. Where is it now? The law enforcement agencies and special services in the US have taken it apart, into little pieces, and have dissolved it.
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Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.
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Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
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I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
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Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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I'm here on the blacktop, the sun in my eyes Women and Country on my mind
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The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
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The North American government used the quota system on imports of Cuban sugar not only to protect her own sugar industry, as demanded by her own producers, but also to make possible the unrestricted introduction into our country of North American manufactured goods.
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I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.
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I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.
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It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.
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The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country.
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Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.
