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I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness. Margaret Trudeau
Suffering Humiliated Mental Mental Illness Feel Like Know Illness Defeated Marginalized
I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh. Mario Lemieux
Speak Until Came Pittsburgh English
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. Mark Steyn
Government Health You Waiting People Wait Care Everything System Never Know Health Care Operations Health Care System Years America Essence Who Lived Routine
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan
You Live Living State More Always Overload Effects Than Information Electric Cope
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Age Ourselves See More More And More Toward Being Form Information Moving Translated Electronic Extension Technological Consciousness
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. Marshall McLuhan
Writing Care Thought Prominent Magazine Composition More Features Go Than Any Newspaper Far Ad
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan
Art Culture Old Beginning Think Distant System Tell Significant Most Dew Always Line Happen Warning Early
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Marshall McLuhan
Love True Love Hate True Contempt Accompany Antipathy Views
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. Marshall McLuhan
Man Car Become Aggressive Protective Shell Suburban Urban
I just love being around my family during the holidays. Martha MacIsaac
Love Family Around Just Being Holidays
My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too. Mary Pierce
Life Good My Life Feeling Too Changed Guess Inside Outside Feeling Good Court Off Shows
I definitely need clarity. Mary Pierce
Definitely Clarity Need
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. Maurice Strong
Environmental Natural Words Other Earth Corporation Running Rather Environment Maintenance Like Global Global Environment Undermining Than Accounts Sustainability In Other Words After Depreciation Capital Means Your Whole Asset Keeping
Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child. Maurice Strong
Trouble Babies Some Something Restriction Point Got Least Years Years Ago Canada Child Might Even Right Necessary Suggesting
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world. Maurice Strong
People World Our Impact Ecological Environment Developing Developing World Footprint Industrialized Make Greater Because Condition Times Than Difference Larger
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. Maurice Strong
You Respect Criticism Examine Something Learn Because Always Sources
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based. Maurice Strong
Me Seriously Homework Extreme Would Criticisms More Almost Anyone Realise Interested Little Who Based
If you can eat five fruits and vegetables a day, that alone can totally change your diet. Maye Musk
Alone Day You Change Vegetables Eat Totally Five Diet Fruits Your
I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks. Melissa Auf der Maur
Life My Life Sold Records Capitol Sucks
I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic. Michael Buble
Love Kindness Humor Think Caring Those Kind Empathy Gestures Romantic
Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that. Michael Ignatieff
Politics Game Change People World Remember Tough Politicians Busy Nurse Way Jobs Would Emergency Tougher Lots Than Done Places Ward Trauma Saturday Saturday Night Night Need
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. Michael J. Fox
Good Together People Dinner Every Ensemble Dinner Table Table New Got Lot Five Same Six Form Theater Worked Show Oldest Players Every Night Night
As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. Michael J. Fox
Stage Unable About More Parkinson Stuck Within Reverse End Movement Being Frozen Happen Gonna Much
I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. Michael J. Fox
Work People Will Half Few Research Enjoy Every Kind TV Through Thursday Supporting Hour Make Make A Difference Advocacy Privilege Than Get Few People Difference Being Bigger Mean Certainly Actor Lives
What other people think about me is not my business. Michael J. Fox
Me Business People Think Other About
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. Michael J. Fox
Work Together Marriage Key Differences Other Our Give Similarities How Break Capacity Work Together Realize Each
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