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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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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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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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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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.
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I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
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There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
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There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
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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.
