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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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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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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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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An undevout astronomer is mad.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.
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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
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Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Mim to Nelson 'Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid.'
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I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
