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Country Quotes
"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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"'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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"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."
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"I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
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"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."
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"The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever."
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"Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first."
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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."
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"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
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"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven."
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"This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare."
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"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."
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"No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel."
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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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"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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"When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us."
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"Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world."
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"A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country."
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"Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it."
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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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"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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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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"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
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"The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great."
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"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."
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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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"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."
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"My first occupation was to map the country."
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