Lucien Bouchard Quotes
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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I'm a terrible procrastinator.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
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I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
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Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu'on l'outrageEt l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.
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I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
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I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
