Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes

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Stephen Leacock

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• Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Job
  • War

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Matter
  • View

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Presentation

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Audiences
  • Asian

• One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

  

  Damian Marley
  • Remember
  • Cool
  • Listening

• If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • See
  • Week

• People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Reality
  • Small

• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Value

• Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Doing
  • Eating

• I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Optimistic

• My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Everything

• Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

  

  Margaret Carlson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Running

• The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Country

• Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Future
  • Belief
  • Healing

• If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Work
  • Art
  • Artist

• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  

  Stephen Leacock
  • Money
  • Human
  • Intelligence