Paul Watson Quotes
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.Paul Watson
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
Imran Amed -
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham Lincoln -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut -
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert -
Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Zach Galifianakis -
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell -
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
Edmund White -
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
Walter O'Brien -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch -
I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
Hansika Motwani -
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
Ed Sheeran -
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
Orson Welles
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Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.
Margaret Fuller -
Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
Jennifer Haigh -
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack Obama -
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel -
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
Steve Jobs -
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
Paul Watson