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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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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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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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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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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People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.
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To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
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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.
