Clara Hughes Quotes
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.
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I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.
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I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
