Famous Quotes: Country

When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't.
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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
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I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.
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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
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Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
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One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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