"The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . ."
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"What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear."
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"When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War."
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"A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world."
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"I've always had a love of country music."
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"I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element."
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"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking."
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"I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it."
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"I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors."
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"From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."
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"It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country."
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"We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put--country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together."
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"It's definitely an honour to represent my home country once again in the Commonwealth Games. It is going to be a magical experience and to be considered as a role model is a reward in itself."
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"Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country."
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"Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed."
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"In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?"
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"Your mom can't hate a whole country because of one person!"
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"When the wind blows across the various continents, it does not bring with it the nationalities of the countries through which it passes. So likewise with Life."
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"A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."
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"I think there are lots of things that people think are so different but they're not. People think there is a huge difference between hip hop and country music, but there is really not when you start looking into themes and what people are struggling with or celebrating. When you break it down to the chords and the beats it is all the same. Personally, I am obsessed with music as it is a limitless tunnel that you can explore."
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