Jim Flaherty Quotes

I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy.

Jim Flaherty

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1949 - April 10, 2014

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When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.

John Kline

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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Andy Rooney

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The responsible use of earmarks can have public benefits.

Jeff Fortenberry

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It's one of the wonderful things that the Academy does - a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.

Michael Cimino

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There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.

John Tesh

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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Robin Williams

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There were times at the start of it all when I would be standing, terrified, in front of the cameras and people I considered 'real' actors. I had no idea what was happening, what the guy with the clipboard did, or if people in the studio were looking at me because it was their job to look at me or because they thought I was making a mess of things.

Rory McCann

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Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Mohsin Hamid

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I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

Monique Coleman

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Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

Michael Leunig

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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

Joyce Maynard

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If a fighter thinks he knows everything and stops trying to evolve, he's lost.

Jose Aldo

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