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I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
Stephen Harper

Health, Medical, Understand

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
David Suzuki

Failure, Often, Act

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
Eliot Spitzer

Nothing, Done, Same

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Clarence Thomas

Service, Road, Economy

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Great, Pretty, Acting

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?
Ellie Goulding

Respect, Trying, Lots

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
Ellie Goulding

Nature, Human, Rather

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Best, Patriotism

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
Al Gore

Change, Moving, Political

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
Andy Goldsworthy

Energy, Between, Theatre

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
Rowan Atkinson

Else, Anyone, Films

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
Jonathan Kozol

Energy, Moment, Moments

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

Life, Art, Show

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Raymond Chandler

Good, Bad, Writing

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
Iain Duncan Smith

Everything, Down, Again

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
L. Ron Hubbard

Person, Others, Rights

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Human, State, Order

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
Carlos Ghosn

Time, Fact, Cars

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
King Abdullah II

Emotional, Spring, Matter

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
Paul Simon

Time, Done, Once

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes, Read, Exception

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.
Eddie Vedder

Music, Government, Pretty

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.
Francois Hollande

Important, Two, Needs

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
Alan Dershowitz

Mind, Career, Wrong

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
Alan Dershowitz

Important, Young, Difficult

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Paul Wellstone

Change, Politics, Good

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.
Paulo Freire

Process, Role, Essential

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
Bjork

Good, Country, Comedy

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
Craig Ferguson

Work, Saying, Place

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
A. P. Herbert

Period, Matrimony

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