Christine Quinn Quotes
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,For I wish to be purged of an urge.It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.
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In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot Carolina where everybody was a Christian and found unbelief unbelievable.
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The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
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There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.
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I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
