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Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.
Q magazine, April 2000 -
Overwhelmingly, I would say I've had really good support from many of my teammates and guys that I've played with. We want to be able to express our views. You know, we're part of this country, too.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Has Man a Future? (1962) -
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
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People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
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President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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