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Nationality Quotes
"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
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"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
12
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
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"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
9
"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
9
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
7
"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
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"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."
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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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