John G. Diefenbaker Quotes
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
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In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
