Jack Layton Quotes
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.
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The struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
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Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
