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.Stompin' Tom Connors
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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.
Vanessa Hudgens -
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.
Aaron Koblin -
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
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.
Ted Yoho -
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.
Aaron Levie -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Francesco Totti -
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.
Rachel Hunter -
Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
Sam Shepard -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
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.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
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.
Vanilla Ice
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
Brown Campbell -
I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
Patrice Leconte -
It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.
Igor Luksic -
My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.
Karen Robards -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
Jackie Chan
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Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
John Stossel -
You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
Cate Blanchett -
Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
Simon Sinek -
I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French,And some’ll swallow tay and stuff fit only for a wench;But I’m for right Jamaica till I roll beneath the bench,Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.
John Masefield -
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.
Stompin' Tom Connors