Jack Layton Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
Barbara Boxer -
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Paracelsus -
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
Forest Whitaker -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash -
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
Sally Phillips -
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor -
If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
Narendra Modi -
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert -
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
Harold Warner -
I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
Larry King
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
Adam Hamilton -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Kate Atkinson -
Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
Ja Rule -
I'm much more shy than most of my family.
Talia Balsam
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Malcolm X -
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Seneca the Younger -
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
Billy Collins -
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
William Shakespeare -
My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here.
Bob Bruce -
Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.
Jack Layton