William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm useless with a sword in real life.

John Bradley-West

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Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

John Lanchester

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There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

John Lithgow

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeManChildPlayChangesFiction

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

Stephen Hough

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We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.

Sid Meier

TimeGameThinkCareLongLong Time

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

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When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

Tom DeLonge

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I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.

Millie Bobby Brown

LoveWriteWhalesDolphinsMany

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

LP

YourselfYouSittingOutLeaveThem

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

Jonas Mekas

WorkMyselfFamousFriendsMoments

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

Colm Toibin

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