Conrad Black Quotes

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

Conrad Black

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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Jello Biafra

GoodWomenPeopleIslamLineWell

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

Matt Gonzalez

OpportunityPeopleFeelYoungLiving

A McDonald's cheeseburger with no mustard is my guilty pleasure.

Matt Hardy

GuiltyMcDonaldPleasureCheeseburger

It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

Jeff Abbott

GoodJobMeWritingControlBook

Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It's the same reason ancient Scandinavians worshiped the sun: because they saw so little of it.

Steve Rushin

SunGolfShortMadReasonSame

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.

Simon Beaufoy

GoodLiveWaterLandscapeYouNever

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

Make It HappenYouWantHappenOut

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations.

Alissa Quart

LifeMoneyPoetryProblemsPolitical

When I think about strong innovations in term of automation, robotics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, they are coming a lot from the Philippines and from India as well.

Pierre Nanterme

IntelligenceStrongThinkAutomation

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Swizz Beatz

KnowPersonalBecauseSellMineHow

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Susan B. Anthony

WorkSuccessWomanWishSexParty

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

Susan Orlean

WaterValueValuesNiceIslandLand

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