John G. Diefenbaker Quotes
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I have to do this my way.
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
