Jason Priestley Quotes

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.

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• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Movies
  • Television
  • Shows

• I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Woman
  • First
  • Before

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Long
  • Success

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Memories

• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • American
  • Law

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Water

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Energy
  • Summer

• Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

  

  Ben Richards
  • America
  • Space
  • Sci-Fi

• Incredible. It is just incredible that you can notice something like that when your face is so cold you can't feel it anymore, and you know perfectly well you are surrounded by death, and the only way to stay alive is to endure the howling wind and hold your course. And still the sky is beautiful.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Wind

• Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.

  

  Jason Priestley
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