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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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
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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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The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.
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Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights wondering when someone's going to knock on my door with sacks of cash.
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I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!
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An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.
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Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
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Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.
