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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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
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The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row.
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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
