Famous Quotes: Country

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
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A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
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The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
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It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.
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Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
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Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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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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Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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My music is fun, kind of cheeky.
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