Farley Mowat Quotes
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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We had a day off here yesterday and I just sat in my room and played.
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I could not ask for more than the love you give me... Cause it's all I've waited for... and I could not ask for more.
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The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
