Paul Prudhomme Quotes
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.
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Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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The way you become divine is to become wholly human.
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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.
