Paul Watson Quotes
Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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I mean maybe only a thousand people might listen but it doesn’t really matter about numbers, what matters is your own little community.
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I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.
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My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
