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Quotes About Nationality

We need to increase deportations.
~ Matteo Salvini
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
~ Emir Kusturica
I am from Karnal, India.
~ Kalpana Chawla
I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.
~ Adnan Sami
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
~ Freida Pinto
Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
~ Hasan Minhaj
I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
~ Zubin Mehta
I am extremely proud to have the surname Ambani. I am proud to be a Gujarati, and above all, an extremely proud Indian.
~ Anil Ambani
He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
~ Bill Cosby
America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
~ Marlene Dietrich
If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.
~ Jan C. Ting
When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'
~ Sadiq Khan
I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
~ Joseph Brodsky
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
~ Hannah Arendt
Eichmann, though no legal expert, should have been able to appreciate that, for he knew from his own career that one could do as one pleased only with stateless people; the Jews had has to lose their nationality before they could be exterminated.
~ Hannah Arendt
When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.
~ Brandon Flowers
I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.
~ Teresa Palmer
I can honestly say that there's nothing more beautiful for a sportsperson that to play for his or her country, regardless of the tournament or the location.
~ Javier Zanetti
I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.
~ Emir Kusturica
Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.
~ Mario Monti
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
~ Shelby Foote