"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.”
“It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.”
“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.85, Anza Publishing
“I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.”
“It really is better to be lucky than to be good.”
“Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.”
“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.”

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