Andrew Nikiforuk Quotes

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Andrew Nikiforuk

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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

John McAfee

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I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.

Jeff Shaara

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Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

Steve Carell

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I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

Aly Raisman

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I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.

Sloane Stephens

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Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

Rithy Panh

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Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

Marv Levy

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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

Arianna Huffington

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If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Anushka Sharma

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Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Thomas Sadoski

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The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations.

Moshe Katsav

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I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

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