Farley Mowat Quotes
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Human nature is weak.
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My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.
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At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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A Jewish convert said to me once, 'The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth.'
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
