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  • My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. -- Leigh Steinberg
  • One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day. -- Scott Baio
  • Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. -- Amy Alcott
  • It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. -- Bill Paxton
  • I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in. -- Kay Granger
  • God is diverse and inclusive, not limited and exclusive. You're thinking of a Country Club. -- Brian Robertson
  • I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . . -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club. -- Edwin Meese
  • I like to play golf, but not at a country club. -- Roger Wang
  • I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will. -- Martin Sheen
  • The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. -- Howard Dean
  • In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it. -- Lance Henriksen
  • My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club. -- Harold Ramis
  • Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. -- Pete du Pont
  • The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. -- Pete du Pont
  • The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. -- Wellington Mara
  • When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity. -- Martin Sheen
  • I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why. -- Dylan Baker
  • Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers. -- Shelley Hennig
  • My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men. -- Mike Greenberg
  • From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers. -- Zoe Kravitz
  • I have always applied myself the same for club and country. -- Steven Gerrard
  • Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. -- Thomas Sowell
  • I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love. -- Travis Tritt
  • The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C. -- Andrew Breitbart
  • I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member. -- Groucho Marx
  • We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football. -- Gerard Houllier
  • In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United. -- Matt Busby
  • Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. -- Erma Bombeck
  • At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain. -- Diego Maradona
  • The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders. -- Peter Morgan
  • In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress. -- Alan K. Simpson
  • I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness. -- John Grier Hibben
  • Why would I become involved with something that doesn't include everyone? If you're getting married today, it's the equivalent of joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews. -- Sarah Silverman
  • I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner. -- Jim Cramer
  • A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater... -- Lisa Birnbach
  • It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it. -- Lance Henriksen
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