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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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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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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If you think you can use me and get away with it, then you haven’t been paying attention.
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We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.
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So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
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There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
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You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues
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In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.
