Living In The Country Quotes

• There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Thinking, Miracle

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

  Alison Bechdel

  Country, New York, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.

  David Bowie

  Country, Philosophy, Civilization

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

  Eartha Kitt

  Country, Believe, Dirt

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• The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Country, Son, Rights

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.56, Macmillan

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• The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Law

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.

  George Ticknor

  Country, Doe, Born

  George Ticknor (1877). “Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Urban, Persons

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• There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

  James Brolin

  Country, Malibu, Portions

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