Pierre Pettigrew Quotes

We are all discovering together, of course, just how huge this disaster is, ... It is touching a lot more people than we thought on Saturday, so I think Canada has been pretty fast off the mark.

Pierre Pettigrew

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • America
  • Small
  • Negative

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Language

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Hair
  • Rip
  • T-shirt

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

  

  Jimmy Cannon
  • Sports

• If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

  

  Kerry Stokes
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Real

• A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • American
  • Help

• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • People
  • Culture
  • Dying

• We are all discovering together, of course, just how huge this disaster is, ... It is touching a lot more people than we thought on Saturday, so I think Canada has been pretty fast off the mark.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • People
  • Disaster
  • Canada