Jack Layton Quotes
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
