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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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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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
