Preston Manning Quotes
As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.
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In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
