There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.
I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.
I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.
Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
