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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I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.
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Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.
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Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.'
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Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
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It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
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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.
