Adrienne Clarkson Quotes

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Adrienne Clarkson

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• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Chance

• Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • People
  • Success
  • Honesty

• To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Change
  • Action

• The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • American
  • Action

• I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Harmony

• Personally, I don't wear fur.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Wear
  • Personally
  • Fur

• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Writer

• Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Laughter

• Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Rest

• The important thing is to end a conflict that has brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose , it would be most important that I receive them as soon as possible.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• I feel like when people meet me, I'm very much not what they expected I would be. I'm not a diva, and I'm not mean to people or have weird rules.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Weird

• I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • People

• I know that any fan of 'Veronica Mars' is hardcore and loyal, so I give them the time; we spend time talking about it because it warrants that.

  

  Enrico Colantoni
  • Time

• Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Alone

• I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • Remember
  • March

• It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Character

• To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  

  William James
  • Book
  • Eye
  • Philosophy

• We need silence to be able to touch silence .

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Silence

• The killing of Gaddafi means a lot. That means dictatorships is going down and is done, and there are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators...In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Done
  • Violence

• Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.

  

  John Cornforth
  • Work
  • She
  • Career

• To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  

  Adrienne Clarkson