Lester B. Pearson Quotes

As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.

Lester B. Pearson

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• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

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• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

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• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

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• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

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• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

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• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

  

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• The writer is all alone.

  

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• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

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• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

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• It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

  

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

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• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

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• I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

  

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• Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

  

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• I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

  

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• With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

  

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• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

  

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• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  

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• We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

  

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• As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Peace
  • Action
  • Policy