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country practice luxury
Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas. Isabel Wilkerson
country cities migration
[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.
country lying quality
The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness. Irwin Edman
country organization community
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty. Irwin Redlener
country america entrepreneur
Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too. Iqbal Quadir
country poor poor-countries
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,
country heavy golfers
I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country. Jack Nicklaus
country two augusta-national
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.
country cities president
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country. Jack Kelley
country plato party
I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country. Jack Kevorkian
country determination self
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
country football want
Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit. Jack Kemp
country development world
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
country war law
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
country heart ideas
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do. Jack Kerouac
country home tin-cans
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
country thinking guy
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country....
country crazy eye
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.
country night disappear
all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
country wind broken
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface. Jack Horner
country roots mind
I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country. Jack Brickhouse
country strong believe
I believe our country is strong enough to be criticized. Jack Anderson
country communism espionage
Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.
country thinking funny-things
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Jack Buck
country needs gone
Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested. Jack Bruce
country religious powerful
There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country. Jack Balkin
country labor-day news
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day. J. D. Hayworth
country jobs talking
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt. J. C. Watts
country community world
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country. Isabel Allende
country powerful giving
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
country home tree
far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
country children giving
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
country roots people
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.