Naheed Nenshi Quotes
I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
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We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
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I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.
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My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.
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I'm happy that Canadians are having a good debate about infrastructure, and not whether it's important but more how we're going to pay for it.
