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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Religion

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
  • Interested
  • Batting

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Learn

• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• appear to have been targeted at heavily populated areas to produce maximum carnage.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Target
  • Carnage

• As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is why I'm working very hard to support Senator Bernie Sanders - not only to get through the Democratic primary, but also to win the presidency. He is the only candidate on both sides who understands the cost of war, who has that foresight to keep our country safe, and who will make sure that our military power is not being when and where it shouldn't be.

  

  Tulsi Gabbard
  • Support
  • Soldier
  • Democratic

• When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Time
  • World
  • Friends

• I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • Popular

• The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • World
  • Energy