Jes Macallan Quotes
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
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Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
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If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
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Know your body, understand your mind, and embrace your spiritual path.
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.
