Dalton McGuinty Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
-
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
-
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
-
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
-
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
-
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
-
I love cycling.
-
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
-
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
-
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
-
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
-
I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
-
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
-
Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
-
In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.
-
The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won't hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.
-
It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.
-
There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
