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"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
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"A : I know what you're going to say, B.B : Yes, I've dreamed about this chat, A."
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Personal Development
"For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay."
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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"No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad."
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"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do."
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"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation."
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"Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can make or break the outcome of your entire conversation. Been there, done that, right?"
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"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
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"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
Leadership
"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
Money
"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
Mind
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
Leadership
"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
Conversation
"You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country."
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"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
Leadership
"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
Nothing
"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
Leadership
"For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic."
Strength
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