Jack Layton Quotes
'That’s been a hashtag fail.' And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: 'With the bling and everything that comes with it.'
Quotes to Explore
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.
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Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
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My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'
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When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.
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'That’s been a hashtag fail.' And on the temptations stemming from a life of crime: 'With the bling and everything that comes with it.'
