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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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others.
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One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
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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.
