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 like to work with people of different cultures, different points of view. But yeah, I feel much more comfortable. That's the problem I sometimes have with going to Hollywood. I feel like they don't share the same values as I do. They aren't interested in the same things. It's not always true, but sometimes, I feel it deeply, because as an industry, they celebrate things that I'm less interested in, and it's all about the business.
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You have to write badly in order to write well.
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One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
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Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
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Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
