Jason Priestley Quotes
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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I like mac and cheese.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.
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The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.
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You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.
