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Country Quotes
"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."
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"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear."
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"What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us."
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"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."
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"Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country."
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"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."
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"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."
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"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
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"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
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"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
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"The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced."
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"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."
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"For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights."
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"Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well."
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"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country."
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"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."
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"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful."
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"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
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"During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries."
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"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
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"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
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"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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