Jack Layton Quotes
We want to try to have a productive parliament to focus on issues Canadians care about, ... If there is no significant action in the days ahead, we will have to make our choice.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!
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My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Steam navigation... tends to unite the nations of the earth as inhahitants of one country. ...is not this the same as greatly to shorten distances?
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We want to try to have a productive parliament to focus on issues Canadians care about, ... If there is no significant action in the days ahead, we will have to make our choice.
