Jim Pattison Quotes
When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.
Quotes to Explore
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.
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Often when I'm trying to make tough decisions, I rely on the lessons my father taught me and ask myself, 'What Would Tony Say?'
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history.
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When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.
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When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.
