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Country Quotes
"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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"Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country."
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"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."
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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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"I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
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"New Zealanders who emigrate to Australia raise the IQ of both countries."
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"I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."
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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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"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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"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."
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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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"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
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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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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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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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"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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"There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes."
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
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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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"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 undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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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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"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this."
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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 are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country."
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"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
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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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"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
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"We were surprised that the television series had the kind of longevity that it had after only four years of filming it and the reception in 6 countries around the world was quite extraordinary."
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