Elizabeth May Quotes
Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
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The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
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It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.
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Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
