Stompin' Tom Connors Quotes
If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
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Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.
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Je savais que le bien comme le mal est affaire de routine, que le temporaire se prolonge, que l'extérieur s'infiltre au dedans, et que le masque, à la longue, devient visage.
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If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.