Jim Flaherty Quotes
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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The secret to making money isn't working at a high-paying job, it’s finding creative solutions to people’s problems.
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I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.
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I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.
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Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
