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Country Quotes
"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
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"When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something."
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"I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?"
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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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"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."
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"There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed."
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"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country."
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"I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it."
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"The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country."
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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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"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."
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"Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs."
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"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
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"Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon."
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"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."
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"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."
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"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."
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"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country."
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"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
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"I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer."
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"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."
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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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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
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"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
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"And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country."
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"We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us."
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"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."
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"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice."
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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
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"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."
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