Farley Mowat Quotes
Ah me son, we don't be taking nothing from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away...
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
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The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
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A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.
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'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
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You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true.
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Ah me son, we don't be taking nothing from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away...
