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 love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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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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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I got it all down, ... I think just being off, it fades away a little bit. But it all comes back.
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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.
