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 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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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.
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No society can possibly be built upon a denial of individual freedom.It is contrary to the very nature of man. Just as a man will not grow horns or a tail, so will he not exist as man if he has no mind of his own. In reality even those who do not believe in the liberty of the individual believe in their own.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
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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.
