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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Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.
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I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.
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When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
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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...
