Country Quotes
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So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.
Zach Braff
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It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
Vladimir Putin
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There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.
Pramila Jayapal
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I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.
Queen Noor of Jordan
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At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.
Catherine Bertini
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Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country.
Dmitry Peskov
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With fame comes the responsibility of what you say. If the country is watching you, there ought to be substance, something worthwhile to speak about.
Ranveer Brar
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I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.
Dmitry Medvedev
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We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.
Powers Boothe
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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
Vladimir Putin
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When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
Cennino Cennini
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At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
Muddy Waters
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Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
David Hepworth
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We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.
Barack Obama
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I challenge all of you to fight for this country.
Marcus Luttrell
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My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
John Burnside
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I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys' Wrangler jeans and my husband's worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home.
Ree Drummond
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I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'
Jon Tenney
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I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.
Serena Williams
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A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.
Tommy Franks
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I decided to join the military to give back to my country and help pay for college.
Steve Stivers