Jack Layton Quotes
We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.
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We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.
