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"Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together."
"All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work."
"Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat."
"I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business."
"So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim."
"All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries."
"It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here."
"I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends and I want all my friends to be different. I want to play six instruments. I want to be the best in the world at two things. I want to be a great athlete and I want to be a great surgeon. I need to practice very hard every day. I need to sleep as little as possible. I need to read at least one major book every week. And I need to remember that my seventy years are going to go by too quickly."
"Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world."
"Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters."
"When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording."
"I may look fake but I'm real where it counts."
"Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it."
"There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up."
"Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance."
"I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches."
"I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song."
"I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound."
"I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do."
"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."
