Lester B. Pearson Quotes
True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Peace is its own reward.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
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The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
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I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'
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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
