Jack Layton Quotes

It's not fair that prices have risen so quickly -- so rapidly -- because the product that is for sale was purchased (before the hurricane) at prices that were much lower by the companies. So there's some profiteering going on here.

Jack Layton

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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Oscar Isaac
- Think
- Reason
- Movies
Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

Dan Hicks
- Good
- Thinking
- Future
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

Garry Marshall
- Want
- Movies
- Desert
In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Fanny Howe
- Poetry
- Voice
- Chinese
Going 3-13 is not acceptable.

Malik Jackson
- Going
- Acceptable
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

Salman Rushdie
- People
- Hurt
- Famous