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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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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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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I'm not optimistic.
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You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.
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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.
