Brian Mulroney Quotes
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.
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The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities.
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When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.
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You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
