John Lyly Quotes
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.
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Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues and didn't understand how I could be the one that created 4chan and, as he put it, 'couldn't understand how to fit the square peg into a round hole.' The best way I have of describing it is, 'I didn't define it, and it doesn't define me.'
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If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.
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Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
