Kim Campbell Quotes
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'
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Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.
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Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out.
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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
