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'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

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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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• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

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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 laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  

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• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

  

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• The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.

  

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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.

  

  Preston Manning
  • School
  • Father
  • Study