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.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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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.
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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.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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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.
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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.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
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People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
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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.
