Al Purdy Quotes
Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.
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The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.
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Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
