You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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Related You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ... FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o... FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of... FRANCIS VINCENT “FRANK” ZAPPA, JR. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind o... FRANK ZAPPA Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer se... STEVEN HALL Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have... FRANK ZAPPA There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghani... GROVER NORQUIST It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the dif... ISAAC HANSON The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And i... ANTONIN SCALIA If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy... ELLEN MALCOLM If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full. DAVE MUSTAINE Let's have a beer together, you can open it and I will drink it. ANONYMOUS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a... SUSAN CAIN Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot... DANIEL CLOWES If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chanc... HANIF KUREISHI First, you drink the beer, obviously, and you think about everything you’ve been through, includin... RACHEL SHARP New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin... DOUGLAS BRUNT So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you... PETER L. BERGER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG These guys (the Irish) can light you up quick. Quarterback Brady Quinn can hurt you, and they have s... ALLAN JOHNSON A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I me... ANDY TAYLOR Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes... JOHN MADDEN If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full. DAVE MUSTAINE And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record... JOAN JETT If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They do... KIM YOUNG-SAM What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you... DARIN STRAUSS Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't t... RICHARD DESMOND You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a... DIANE ENGLISH North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countr... MICHAEL MOORE Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of s... IO TILLETT WRIGHT In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind ... JAMES BLUNT If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talk... JOE GREENE We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... ... BEN BOVA Morse poured himself a can of beer. "Champagne's a lovely drink, but it makes you thirsty, doesn't i... COLIN DEXTER If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see b... TOM ROBBINS If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel... My friends tre... TRAVIS FIMMEL If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I re... STEVE JONES Look, you know and I know that it's either Abraham or Einstein, but dammit, a free beer is a free be... THE ARCHIVES That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who dri... JOE QUEENAN You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating mea... GRANT WOOD Having a good product helps, ... You can sell really well, but it really helps if you have a good pr... DONALD TRUMP It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team, JON GRUDEN You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to... BRADLEY WHITFORD You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you ha... IRIS APFEL If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country. DONALD TRUMP When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what... HIROKO SAKAI You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine, ... Beer is great for basting or marinating... GRANT WOOD He always liked to have a good time. It could be a serious time and you could always count on him to... JEFF GWALTNEY If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money ... HENRY KRAVIS When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's ... ZELJKO IVANEK You can never buy beer, you just rent it. ARCHIE BUNKER If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no an... TOM LENK I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, mo... JENNIFER LOPEZ We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... EDDIE VAN HALEN You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take... ROGER EBERT I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,... WILLEM DAFOE And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at l... MAYA ANGELOU I can categorically tell you that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, JAVAD ZARIF When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bu... ORLANDO BLOOM It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happine... LEMONY SNICKET If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won... ERIC RIPERT Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't... DONALD MILLER Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You eit... COLM FEORE If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you&... MICHELLE FORBES You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, ... MARTHA STEWART It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael J... MARC BLUCAS I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. ... SAMUEL L. JACKSON You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you. BILL O'REILLY We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Laugh in the face of those who try to oppress you. And crack a beer (root beer). THEE AMAZING GRACE In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if yo... RANDY CROSS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI You have to at least had sex in your van once, or be trying to. And you have to play music of some s... BETH ALLEN I am not sure if such simulated training is going to be a help. You mean to say if we tour Australia... HARBHAJAN SINGH If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be compet... BOB MCNAIR We'd like very much to see a reduction in the interdependence of beer and football. ANDY GEIGER
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