Jack Layton Quotes
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I love my sleep.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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Sometimes brothers are in war with each other, but at the end love conquers all.
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When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
