Preston Manning Quotes
People who been told that the Reform Party consists of well-meaning simpletons mouthing naive solutions to complex problems should study Harper's speeches on behalf of Reform.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Women just love to shop.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
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Jokes are very curious things psychologically.
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Me"? I know a lot of "me's," actually, so which one are you?
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Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.
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Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.
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People who been told that the Reform Party consists of well-meaning simpletons mouthing naive solutions to complex problems should study Harper's speeches on behalf of Reform.
