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“France is an old country that needs to wake up.”

Needs Country Wake Up France

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.”

World Country Democratic Division

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

Years Country Constitution Independence Declaration Declaration Of Independence

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.”

Want Country Fate Fans Stubborn Music Fans Country Music Fans

Author:Natalie Maines

“For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.”

Country Violent Warfare Relentless Goodwill Settlement

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.”

World Country Today Dangerous Pakistan World Today

Author:Peter MacKay

“In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.”

Way Said Country Moving Economy Fit Economics Moving Forward Indian Reaganomics

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.”

Country Government Running Political Courses Difficult Party Tasks India Congress Political Parties Flexibility Adjustment Coalitions Difficult Tasks

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”

“So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.”

Country Mother Cases Successful Highest Classic Womb Rating

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”

Country Past Given Media Ethics Presses Surprise Decades Code Code Of Ethics

Author:Roger Mudd

“Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.”

Country Music Is

Author:Scotty McCreery

“It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.”

Country Stage Beats London Realistic

Author:Stella McCartney

“We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.”

Country Kids House Growing Up Growing Vegetables

Author:Stella McCartney

“I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.”

Thinking Country United Party Duty Citizens Corruption Russia Destroyed Our Country Thieves Patriot Crooks

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.”

Feels Country Born Exile

Author:Azar Nafisi

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”

People Long Country Whole Song Sound Long Time Pops Labels Long Time Ago Gave Up Pop Song

Author:David Nail

“We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.”

Needs Has Beens Country Energy Natural Quality Air Serious Demand Benefits Percent Plant Gas Natural Gas Power Plants Air Quality

Author:Gale Norton

“The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.”

Needs Country Form Social Currents Welfare Pension Social Welfare

Author:Giorgio Napolitano

“I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.”

Thinking Country Natural Fit Majors Baseball League Major League Major League Baseball

Author:Joe Nichols

“I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.”

Country Perception

Author:Joe Nichols

“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

People Looks Country Stories Bigs Seems Class Struggle Fans Labor Mark Our Country Epic Royalty Life Struggle Upper Class

Author:Lucas Neff

“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.”

Country Left Company Theater Germany Iran Turkeys

Author:Navid Negahban

“We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.”

Needs Years Stills Country Happens Next Agreement Next Year

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.”

Believe Country I Believe Security Standing Trade International National Security Expanding Moderates Strengthening

Author:Richard Neal

“Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.”

Years Country Company Havens Taxes Paper Trade Corporate Dozen Citizenship Papers Bermuda

Author:Richard Neal

“The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.”

Country Roles Focus Movement Changed Research Aspect West Western Islamic Secular Asian Asian Countries

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.”

Country Successful England

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.”

Trying Country Our Country

Book:Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again

Source: Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again

“Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.”

Giving Country Economic Credit Historian Collapse Steering Economic Collapse

Author:Ron Fournier

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

Thinking Want Trying Country Next Space Levels Boundaries Johnson Nasa Next Level

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.”

Years Mean Country Source Direct Cooking Rounds Boxes Woods Heat Grilling

Author:Jamie Oliver

“Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.”

People Ifs Way Country Moving Views Issues Subjects Independence Moving Forward Crucial Sensible Scotland Scottish Referendums

Author:Keith O'Brien

“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”

Years Two Country Hundred Opposites Twenties Opening Observation Japan Splits Ambiguity Present Day Two Opposites Modernisation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.”

Country Position Japan Asia Orientation Ambiguous Invaders

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.”

Country Jobs Moving Choices Progress Creation Adversity Moving Forward Job Creation Times Of Adversity Maryland Forward Progress

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.”

Country Fighting Injustice Dictatorship Pope Nigeria John Paul John Paul Ii Pope John Paul

Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.”

People Country Hard Dream Bigs America Hard Work Extraordinary Appeals Pulling Presidency Bootstraps

Author:Ron Fournier

“Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.”

People Want Kind Country Difficult Issues

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.”

Feels Firsts Long Country Brain Growing Happened Projects Long Time First Time Educational Educated Improving 1960s Drains Brain Drain

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.”

Country Law Views Moral Judging Foundation Our Country Acknowledgment Appease Sad Day Federal Judges

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.”

Country Left Economic Painting Kings Office Sitting Shoulders Journal Woe Luther Abraham Oval

Author:Ron Fournier

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”

Thinking Country School Crisis

Author:Daniel Pennac

“The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.”

Wells Country Problem Live Well Well Dressed

Author:Francois Pinault

“We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.”

Country Together Differences Despite Celebration Diverse

Author:Jared Polis

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Thinking Mind Country Truth Reading Materials Citizens Fellows

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

World Country Political Universe Religious Media Fields Members Highest Mass Intellectual Research Rate Stupidity Artistic Appeals Scholar Judicial Moron Mass Media Best Place

Author:William C. Brown

“Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.”

Mean Country France Expensive Tourists Visitors

Author:George Mikes