Maurice Strong Quotes
I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Nothing truly bad happens. There's always good and bad in any changes.
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You know how some people have gay-dar? I have fat-dar. I can automatically tell if you're fat or not. And I also have cerebral-palsy-dar.
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God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.
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Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
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I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.
