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God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
You may delay, but time will not.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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