John Turner Quotes
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
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In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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Money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.
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In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
