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“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.”

People Thinking Years Stills Country Ability Watches Television Tvs Internet Wide Inches Foreign Countries Csi

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.”

Years Looks Country Streets Wall Profession Lawyer Time Spent Foreign Countries

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.”

World Want Country Running Deals Theory Travel Traveled Foreign Countries

Author:Will Rogers

“I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.”

Wells Stills Country Play Age Certain Entertaining Cartoon Foreign Countries Brackets

Author:Walter Lantz

“I guess my biggest failure was not getting re-elected. And I learned two things; one is that you ought not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.”

Country Loss Taught Hostage Foreign Countries

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.”

May Country Hands Share Property Profit Instance Titles Owners Railway Foreign Countries

Book:Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.”

“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”

I Can Country Reading Silence Walking Thousand My Friends Eight Miles Family And Friends Find Me All Alone Miles Away Foreign Countries Thousand Miles Unreachable I Love My Friends Most Favorite

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.”

Years Has Beens Made Country States Certain Millions Progress Example Jew Trials Setting Settings Propaganda Palestine Martyr Anti Semitism Foreign Countries Extermination Madagascar

Author:Julius Streicher

“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”

Way May Country Language Best Way Jail Episodes Foreign Countries

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.”

World Needs Long Country Term Party Effort Practice Successful Draws Corruption Valuable Around The World Long Term Heritage Foreign Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”

Knows Country Home Literature Gratitude Good Things Foreign Countries

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.”

Wells Country Lines Walks Mines Crosses Bounds Edges Someday Razors Foreign Countries

Author:Bob Dylan

“Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.”

Years Said Country Light Today Guy Risk Trouble Atheism Constitution Soldier Positive Atheism Decades Vain Interpretation Documents They Said Foreign Countries Light Years

Author:Ted Nugent

“In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.”

Kind Country States Use Might United United States County Ballots Foreign Countries

Author:Jimmy Carter

“We have made it possible, without gold and without foreign exchange, to maintain the value of the German mark. Behind the German mark stands the German capacity for work, while some foreign countries, suffocated by gold, have been compelled to devalue their currencies.”

Has Beens Made Country Values Behinds Capacity Gold Mark Made It Currency Compelled Foreign Countries Devalue Foreign Exchange

Author:Adolf Hitler