I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Bob Newhart
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul
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When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
Andrew Forrest
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I love Colombia's military. I love my country.
Ingrid Betancourt
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
Amos Oz
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My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were married touring the country in 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White.' My mother was married in Cinderella's costume; the dwarves were the best men.
Ron Howard
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I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.
Joyce Banda
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I would like to make work for my country, art which is innately Kenyan by being made in Kenya.
Wangechi Mutu
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My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?
Joe Donnelly
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When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.
Christian Louboutin
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We shall liberate our country.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.
Mahathir Mohamad
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The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.
Anita Elberse
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
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Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.
Shiv Nadar
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe
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People looked at me as a carpetbagger coming over from pop to country. But it helped because it got me in the room.
Darius Rucker
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We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.
Dick Morris
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable.
Saad Hariri
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Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
Iris Chang
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Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
Steve Earle
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron Paul
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