John B. Larson Quotes

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

John B. Larson

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There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Jill Clayburgh

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I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Joanne Liu

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I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, 'That's it. That's it. You've sunk too far!'

Jean Smart

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How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.

John Ralston Saul

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The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

Alva Myrdal

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I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

Sonia Sotomayor

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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

William Lyon Phelps

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We live in an environment in which connectivity and cyberspace are transforming all workplaces, including the humanitarian workplace.

Peter Maurer

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We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Sean Penn

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It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.

Tionne Watkins

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I guess I know how to dress myself, and that's probably the only thing I can do, so it's nice that somebody notices.

Nick Wooster

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