Jack Layton Quotes
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I was a normal American nerd.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
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Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
