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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what's going on across the country.
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Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even if such treatment is unintended. And police forces should reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.
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It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.
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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.
