Pierre Trudeau Quotes
The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.
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It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.
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I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
