Stompin' Tom Connors Quotes
My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
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It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
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My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
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I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
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All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
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The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.
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We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and 'Doll & Em' took off. Calling it by our own names was the director's idea, but hopefully people will understand that we're playing versions of ourselves.
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I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.
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My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.
