Country Quotes
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Vaclav Havel
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If you're asked, you've got to serve - put aside any reservations based on campaign rhetoric... and figure out what's best for the country.
David Petraeus
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During the Democratic presidential debate Howard Dean started off by apologizing to the crowd for having a cold. Then John Kerry apologized for once having a cold while serving his country in Vietnam.
Conan O'Brien
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I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.
Janet Reno
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People misunderstand what a police state is. It isn't a country where the police strut around in jackboots; it's a country where the police can do anything they like. Similarly, a security state is one in which the security establishment can do anything it likes.
John Lanchester
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.
Connie Britton
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
Ken Robinson
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
Yoko Ono
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I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.
Anjelah Johnson
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Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
Joseph Brodsky
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
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Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
Nancy Farmer
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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
Angela Davis
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Yerra, they’ll never shoot me in my own country.
Michael Collins
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I'd love to write a country album with Adele.
Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
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For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
Avicii
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Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
Utah Phillips
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Mandy Moore
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If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.
H. L. Mencken
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I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
Kellie Pickler
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Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
Lao Tzu
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[Michelle Malkin] has been supporting a party which includes most of the idiots in this country who would judge her entirely and exclusively on her [Filipino] appearance.
Keith Olbermann
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After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.
Pastor Maldonado