Stockwell Day (Stockwell Burt Day Jr.) Quotes
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
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There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.
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If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
