Earle Birney Quotes
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
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I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
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We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.
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The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
