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 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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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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Right now partisan tribalism is statistically higher than at any point since the Civil War. Why? It’s certainly not because our political discussions are more important. It’s because the local, human relationships that anchored political talk have shriveled up. Alienated from each other, and uprooted from places we can call home, we’re reduced to shrieking.
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In my store, anyone and everyone is welcome.
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I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'
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I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.
