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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It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
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But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.
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I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.
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Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
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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...
