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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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
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God sent us here to make mistakes.
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First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
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I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.
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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.