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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If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
