William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

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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Al-Qa'ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world's Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

John O. Brennan

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I love what Alabama Shakes is doing - it's kind of like what grunge did to rock 'n' roll, they're doing to R&B.

John Oates

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There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that. All we knew how to do was work, and we usually liked the work we did.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.

Stella McCartney

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Of course, I want to sell records, and of course I want to get played on radio, but it has to be about making the record that I'm proud of.

Trisha Yearwood

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I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.

Rufus Wainwright

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People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Mohammad Azharuddin

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It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Joseph Addison

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Dorothy Fields

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The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

Courtney B. Vance

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To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.

Bradley Walsh

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