Farley Mowat Quotes
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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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 do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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The danger is, if we're not very frank and strong about this, there will be tit-for-tat arrangements. You get into a situation where it becomes an epidemic.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I'm putting jobs over ideology.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
