Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
I certainly admire people who do things.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.
I was forever changed by my experience on 'Once and Again.' All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.
A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.
Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'
I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?
I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.
I was such a tomboy - goofy and, in my eyes, nerdy - and I never thought I would end up in modeling. I mean, you see pictures of these girls in magazines who have this incredible talent, and no one ever really thinks you can make it to that level. At least I didn't!
Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.
Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff.
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
