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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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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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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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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We need to move back toward a free market.
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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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.
