Country Quotes
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California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
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There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
Richard Nelson Bolles
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Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.
William Bennett
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Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.
Sebastian Pinera
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America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
Bono U2
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We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Jorge Ramos
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We need to deal with the economy and the moral weakness of the country.
Emmanuel Macron
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Simply getting a country's population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking.
Evgeny Morozov
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America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.
Jimmy Carter
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Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of America is something of a religious country, but not necessarily a spiritual country.
Charles Lloyd
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We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
Roland Martin
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We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.
Tom Vilsack
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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.
Steve Earle
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Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
Northrop Frye
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My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching the 1996 Games in Atlanta. I remember everyone being so excited to watch. Seeing the American athletes on the podium, I saw myself. I knew that that was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those athletes on the podium representing their country and bringing home medals.
Adam Rippon
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
Nicanor Parra
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Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.
Michael Rosbash
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All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.
Vladimir Putin
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If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.
Scarlett Johansson
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I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.
Jeff Sessions
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I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.
Miriam Makeba
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My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
Peter Carey