Lester B. Pearson Quotes
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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My work... is my legacy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you." Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me." "Then why am I going first?" "So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?" "So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
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Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
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From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.
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Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
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We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction.
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We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
