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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Today
  • Design

• The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• The wrestler was up there with his wife, and I actually heard her say 'Can this thing do a loopty loop?'

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Up
  • Wife

• If one perceives of it all – the entire War or even life as a whole – as a scene in the theater of 'infinity', many things are much easier to bear.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Life
  • War

• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Successful creators engage in an ongoing dialogue with their work.

  

  R. Keith Sawyer
  • Work
  • Dialogue
  • Creators

• My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Life

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

  

  Adrienne Clarkson