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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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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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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It’s good when a man has a sense of humor. Serious men – too hard for me.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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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.
