Quotes with country

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  • Bruno Dumont To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bill Haslam To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • George Burns Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • George Burns Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Vaclav Havel True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Salman Rushdie Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Filner Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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  • Alistair Cooke Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We are a strong democratic country.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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