Foreign Countries Quotes - Page 2

• There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Travel, Writing

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• Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Country, Government, Harry Truman

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “The Book of Daniel: A Novel”, p.234, Random House

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• 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.

  Karl Marx

  Country, Hands, Titles

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Loss, Taught

  "Jimmy Carter's Biggest Failure as President". Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• 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.

  Walter Lantz

  Country, Play, Cartoon

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Travel

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

  Susan Cain

  Country, Wall, Years

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

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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.

  Leslie Moonves

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Cbs Chief Isn't Worried About Youtube Or Google — 'as Long As We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, United States

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• Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

  Martin Heinrich

  Country, Issues, Environmental

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• The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in foreign countries. You think you'll get to see the sights and have all the fun that goes with traveling. Actually, you spend so much time on the job that you don't do much else.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Country, Jobs, Fun

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• Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Country, Mean, Energy

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• In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• England is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.122, Ballantine Books

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  Sam Brownback

  Country, Children, Home

  "Get to Know Sen. Sam Brownback" by Jared Wiener, abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• 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.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, Years, Progress

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

  Marguerite Duras

  Country, Writing, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.66, Grove Press

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  Ed O'Brien

  Country, Fantasy, Fantastic

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• The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.

  Glenn Archer

  Country, Wind, Nuts

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• Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Law, People

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Differences, Different

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• Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Mean, Childhood

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