Chief Joseph Quotes
We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
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The Justice Department is staunchly committed to ensuring that all Americans are treated in a fair and just manner.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.
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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
