Brian Mulroney Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
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We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.