Quotes with country-town

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  • Martina Navratilova I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled ''the bisexual defector'' in print. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Buck Owens I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Harry S. Truman I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language - religion - government - blood - identity in these makes men of one country.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Wyndham Lewis I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Garry Kasparov I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • James Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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