William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 17, 1874 - July 22, 1950

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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Maud Adams

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To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Ameen Rihani

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I first paid attention to fashion when I was around 15, but I don't really care much about it these days.

Suga

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I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Roddy Doyle

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

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I so find Harold Pinter and David Mamet's writing to be exciting, and obviously there aren't that many female - at least with Mamet, there aren't that many good female roles. But I always thought it would be interesting to play one of the guy roles.

Julia Stiles

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I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.

Diana Gabaldon

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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

David Wilkerson

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I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Colum McCann

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I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.

Brandon Adams

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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

Alison Krauss

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The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Sherilyn Fenn

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