Mackenzie King Quotes
Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not Cinderella.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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We've been working cooperatively with eBay. I think the story is that we're trying to target the people who misuse eBay; we're not targeting eBay itself.
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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
