Stephen Harper (Stephen Joseph Harper) Quotes
If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
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I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
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The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
