Lester B. Pearson Quotes

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Lester B. Pearson

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Small
  • Things
  • Small Things

• Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Different
  • Long
  • Prayer

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Process
  • Imitation

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Earth

• I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Find

• The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • America
  • Citizenship

• I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Reading

• History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • History
  • Past

• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

  

  John Cleese
  • People
  • Life

• The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • World
  • Fear

• I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Style
  • Cool

• You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good
  • Basketball
  • Rap

• In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Practice

• What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Church
  • Style
  • Millennials

• As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Music
  • Child
  • Heard

• I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Country
  • House

• A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Work
  • Great
  • Secret

• For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Power
  • Problem
  • Crisis

• All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

  

  Nick Saban
  • Control
  • Play
  • Destiny

• War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Differences
  • Products
  • Valuation

• We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Products
  • Adam
  • Descendants