Country Quotes
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I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.
Benny Green
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Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
Barack Obama
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I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.
Brantley Gilbert
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Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
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The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
John Gurdon
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The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country. … I was really astounded that some people were shocked.
Doris Lessing
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The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.
Eric Garcetti
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I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.
Kent McCord
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I'm here on the blacktop, the sun in my eyes Women and Country on my mind
Jakob Dylan
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
Ernest Hemingway
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I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.
Dule Hill
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I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
George Andrew Olah
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Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
Kathryn Bigelow
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As a country, we can make the commitment to provide quality long-term services - so that getting care doesn't depend on whether you are fortunate enough to have a loved one willing and able to provide it.
Jan Schakowsky
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Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
Mary Quant
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
Jack McDevitt
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The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.
Kenzaburo Oe
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I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.
Barack Obama
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He wondered again, for the hundredth hundredth time, why these men, reckoned by their country to be the dregs of society, fought so well, so willingly, so bravely.
Bernard Cornwell
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The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.
Lucas Papademos
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Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.
Mickey Mantle
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'What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually- our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it.'But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.
Elizabeth Bowen
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In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be there. But that is what democracy is: it is beauty or it's challenge.
Anand Sharma
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
Barack Obama