Jim Flaherty Quotes
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
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I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.
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That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
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It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.
