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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The ability to immediately deduct the costs of capital investments will help employers improve worker productivity and output - which grows Main Street jobs. And with these savings, businesses across the country will have more freedom to grow, hire new workers, and increase wages.
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I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
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I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'
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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
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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.
