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Country Quotes


"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."



"So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year."


"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."


"I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it."


"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."


"Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first."


"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."


"In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country."



"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."


"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."


"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."


"New Jersey is the first state in the country to agree to treat gay and unmarried couples the same as married couples."


"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."



"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."



"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."


"The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame."


"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."


"If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words."


"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."


"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."



"I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great."


"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."



"When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something."


"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."


"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."


"We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances."


"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."


"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."



"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."


"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."
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