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Country Quotes
"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."
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"There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views."
15
"When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are."
15
"This country is undergoing great changes for the better."
15
"The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever."
14
"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
14
"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."
14
"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."
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"For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region."
14
"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
14
"A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries."
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"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."
14
"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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"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
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"I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album."
14
"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
14
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
14
"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."
14
"The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries."
14
"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."
14
"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."
14
"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."
14
"What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel."
14
"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
14
"There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers."
14
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
14
"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."
14
"Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country."
14
"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
14
"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."
14
"But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there."
14
"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at."
13
"Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country."
13
"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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