"If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that."

-- Kevin O'Leary

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities.”

Source : "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.
“A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.”
“We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.”
“Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.”
“Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.”
“The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.”
“No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.”
“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.”

You may also like:

Arlene Dickinson
Entrepreneur
Barbara Corcoran
Businesswoman
Chris Sacca
Investor
Daymond John
Entrepreneur
Jim Treliving
Businessman
Kevin Harrington
Entrepreneur
Lori Greiner
Inventor
Mark Cuban
Businessman
Robert Herjavec
Businessman