Irving Layton Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
