Foreign Countries Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, United States, Use

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Gold, Currency

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• Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

  Edmond Jabes

  Country, Use, Poet

  Edmond Jabès, Keith Waldrop (1988). “If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Travel, Men

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1546, Delphi Classics

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• It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Country, Nature, Animal

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.34, Booklassic

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• It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

  Peg Bracken

  Country, Travel, Speak English

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Literature, Understood

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• In a foreign country people don't expect you to be just like them, but in Los Angeles, which is infiltrating the world, they don't consider that you might be different because they don't recognize any values except their own. And soon there may not be any others.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, People, Different

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

  Anthony Heald

  Country, Couple, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.

  Nicolas Cage

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Nicolas Cage Gets Deadly in Bangkok Dangerous". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 09, 2008.

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Block, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Made, China

  "Donald Trump criticizing John McCain". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Moving, Reality

  Source: time.com

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• In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Class, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.

  Bonar Law

  Country, Party, Believe

  Bonar Law's speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. January 1, 1913.

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• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Country, Dvds, Tv Shows

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, Gold

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• In the old days when I was enforcing illegal immigration laws, when I had the authority from the 287G, everybody accused me that 100,000 people from foreign countries left town. They either went back to where they came from or whatever. So if this little old sheriff can cause, if you want to believe it, many, many people leaving and going back to their country, why can't you do that nationwide?

  Joe Arpaio

  Country, Believe, Law

  "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I've been all over the world. I've dealt with foreign countries. I've done very well, as an example, tremendously well dealing with China and dealing with so many of the countries that are just ripping America. They are just taking advantage of us like nobody's ever seen before.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, Example

  "Trump praises Putin again as he and Clinton face foreign policy questions - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, Tom McCarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2016.

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• All of life is a foreign country.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Country, Travel

  1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

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• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

  George Orwell

  Country, Money, War

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”

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• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  John Salazar

  Country, Agriculture, Energy

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• Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

  Jerry Saltz

  Country, Art, Mentor

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• If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, War, Years

  "Jesse Ventura Challenges Hannity On Waterboarding: “I’ll Get Him To Say Obama Is The Greatest President” By Marcus Baram, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2009.

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