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Over time, the desire of Iraqis to contribute to their own security has manifested itself in citizens volunteering for the police, the Army, and concerned local citizen programs.
David Petraeus
Time
Army
Police
Citizen
Own
Programs
Local
Security
Citizens
Over
Concerned
Iraqis
Itself
Contribute
Manifested
Desire
'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.
Dee Rees
Home
You
Experience
Citizen
About
Fact
Since
Know
Era
Sounder
In Fact
Really
Means
Explored
Even
Set
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott
Me
Citizen
Before
Pedestrian
Athens
City
Echo
Proportions
Ideal
Became
How
Been
Cultural
Walker
Commercial
May
Human
Where
Spain
Port
My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.
Diane Guerrero
Citizen
Parents
Daughter
Older
Immigrant
Brother
Also
Am
Real
Were
Real Story
Story
Who
Older Brother
My parents instilled a lot of American values in me. They encouraged me to work hard and told me that anything was possible for me because I was a citizen.
Diane Guerrero
Work
Me
Work Hard
Values
Citizen
Parents
Possible
Instilled
Because
Encouraged
Lot
American
Anything
Hard
American Values
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
Diane von Furstenberg
World
School
Citizen
Born
Feel
Like
Am
Came
America
Then
Really
England
Belgium
Switzerland
The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.
Dominic Grieve
Citizen
State
Reverse
Serve
Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last.
Dominic Raab
Good
Rugged
Citizen
Power
First
National
Ambition
Herself
Rightly
Must
Reconcile
Favour
More
Sees
Putting
Idealism
Global
She
Shedding
National Interest
Ends
Interest
Means
Good Citizen
Internationalism
Utopian
Last
Britain
The Voter Expansion Project's mission is clear: Ensure that every eligible citizen can register, every registered voter can vote, and every vote is accurately counted.
Donna Brazile
Vote
Citizen
Every
Project
Ensure
Counted
Clear
Voter
Mission
Expansion
Accurately
Register
Registered
Eligible
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.
Dwight Henry
You
Dangerous
Citizen
Living
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Through
Adult
Go
Child
Often
Senior
Situations
Whether
Coast
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
Edward Snowden
Class
School
Citizen
Finished
Worries
Kind
High
Would
High School
About
Had
How
Cheney
Dick Cheney
Taught
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
Ehud Olmert
Success
Citizen
State
Those
Minister
Obligated
Prime
Prime Minister
Voted
Democratic
Him
Democratic State
Always
Israel
His
Polls
Against
Elected
Who
Even
Believed
Desire
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
Elizabeth McGovern
Work
Citizen
Always
Doing
Whenever
Anything
Fantasy
Next
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
Emily Mortimer
Citizen
Husband
Down
Weighed
Between
Dual
Got
Go
Whenever
Eight
Children
Anywhere
Them
Us
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
Emily Mortimer
Citizen
Become
Cynical
Determined
American
Did
American Citizen
Tax
Inheritance
Paying
Avoid
Reasons
Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.
Emily Robison
Speak
Mind
Citizen
Musician
Take
Being
Your
Away
Right
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
Politics
War
Care
Citizen
Other
Type
About
Like
Iraq
Any
Just
Against
Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.
Eric Burdon
Heart
Enemy
Post
Thought
Citizen
Stronger
Edge
Past
Live
Gave
Guess
Slip
Though
Would
Be Careful
Boredom
Shadow
Something
Voice
Never
Over
Longevity
Greatest
WWII
Am
Up
Than
Senior
Growing
Growing Up
Believed
Ever
Second
Here
Careful
You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.
Eric Liu
You
Citizen
Live
Way
Those
Papers
Citizenship
Like
Without
Isolate
Persecute
American
Just
Want
Defend
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Ernest Istook
Language
Citizen
Reading
Become
Our
Official
Should
Requirements
Speaking
English
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
Eva Green
Life
World
Cinema
Citizen
Borders
Feel
Like
Blood
Spanish
Turkish
Swedish
Ethereum will be a first-class citizen on Coinbase.
Fred Ehrsam
Will
Citizen
Ethereum
Coinbase
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
Fred Korematsu
Rights
Citizen
Else
Had
American
American Citizen
Anyone
Anyone Else
Many
As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.
Fred Korematsu
Citizen
Country
States
Willing
Able
Bear
Arms
Ready
Am
United
United States
I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.
Geoff Hoon
Matter
Citizen
Made
Advice
Become
Lobbyist
Interview
Those
Member
Only
Both
Parliament
Had
Clear
Longer
Course
Said
Private
Private Citizen
Provide
Want
After
Companies
Strategic
Things
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
George Packer
Democracy
Citizen
Country
Become
Other
Citizens
Ability
Economically
Longer
Equal
Fallen
Western
America
Move
Behind
Where
Anyone
Anything
Upward
Less
Grown
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