Countries Quotes
2101 quotes by 1405 authors
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with…
— Tama Janowitz
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You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no…
— Milos Forman
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There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.
— George Henry Borrow
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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
— Chris Patten
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More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
— David Korten
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Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present…
— Cecil Rhodes
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So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling…
— Geena Davis
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Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
— George P. Shultz
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I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.
— Novak Djokovic
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The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
— Chester A. Arthur
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I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be…
— Alastair Campbell
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Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with…
— Morena Baccarin
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My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been…
— Eliza Dushku
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Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you…
— Xi Jinping
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I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that…
— Jaimie Alexander
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I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
— Max Brooks
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With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away…
— Andrew Bogut
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The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's…
— Evan Bayh
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Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
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