Lester B. Pearson Quotes
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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Trump affects the world in a major way.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.