John G. Diefenbaker Quotes
When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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From wonder into wonder existence opens.
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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
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My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
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British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'
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First you harmonize, then you customize.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
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We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.
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When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
