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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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
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All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didnĀ“t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
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Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
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In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.