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“We should have pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will”
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“The best part of traveling is finding yourself.”
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“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
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“When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you."
It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.”
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It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.”
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“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”
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