Quotes with country-town

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  • Henry Wotton An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
    Henry Wotton
    English diplomat, politician and writer (1568 - 1639)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Jefferson An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bainbridge Colby An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And in the lonely cool before dawn, you hear their engines roaring on.
    But when you get to the porch they're gone
    On the wind, so Mary climb in.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • John F. Kennedy And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Any cook should be able to run the country.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Arnold Rothstein Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Alan Greenspan Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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