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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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
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Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
