Katherine Ryan Quotes
In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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I'm always late.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!
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It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.
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My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
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People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.
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In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.
