Lester B. Pearson Quotes

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lester B. Pearson

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• Nobel Peace Award

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

  

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• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

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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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• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

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• Friends are not made, but recognized.

  

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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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• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

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• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

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• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  

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• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
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• So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

  

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• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

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• When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

  

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• It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.

  

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• Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.

  

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• Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.

  

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• I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Peace
  • Inspired
  • Ideals