Jack Layton Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.
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I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
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We are a democratic party. I respect and support the decision that has been made.
