Country Quotes
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Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
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Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.
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Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.
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Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.
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Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first.
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You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
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Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
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If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.
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There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things happen, they almost seem to happen on a Shakespearian stage with the audience so close they can become actors too. This is partly what Joseph Brodsky meant when he wrote that small countries have big politics.
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It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.
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Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.
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You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.
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Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
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I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.
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I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
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We have to understand that India is a complex country. Everything takes time for the real impact to get translated to the economy.
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In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
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I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the absence of intervention in Syria. And then in Libya, it's partial intervention. And that doesn't really explain why some countries that have literally nothing to do with the interventions in the Middle East end up getting targeted.
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Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."
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“I came to this country to play baseball and give the best on the field. What people think outside the field, I don’t worry.”
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
