Brian Mulroney Quotes
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.
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There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air.
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For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.
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Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
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There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
