Conrad Black Quotes
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.
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I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.
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Once, four friends and I cut all our hair off, like boys. A couple of them cried afterwards, but I thought we looked really good.
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As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
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I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
