"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."

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“I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!”

Source : John Diefenbaker's speech to PC convention (September 1967), as quoted in Margaret Wente "I Never Say Anything Provocative", 1975.
“Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.”
“There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that needs to be understood by people outside of that experience. The way I put it is that we created something really amazing, hip hop, when we weren't even supposed to survive.”
“As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.”
“I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I feel like everything is going to happen then. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I'm always one of the first ones to say, "Let's try that."”
“As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.”
“The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.”
“The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains ...”

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