Jim Pattison Quotes

In Canada, things are very honest.

Jim Pattison

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• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Injuries

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Woman
  • Sophisticated
  • Chic

• Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Done
  • Joy
  • Always

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth

• Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Done

• Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Feeling
  • Religious
  • Annoyed

• I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

  

  D. L. Hughley

• Well, my friends, the time has comeTo raise the roof and have some fun.Throw away the work to be done.Let the music play on.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Die
  • Judge
  • Islamic

• 'You can't buy love with money.' Only a poor person says that.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Money

• My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Book

• The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • King

• Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

  

  Anne Archer
  • Business

• I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way.

  

  Don Johnson
  • I Think
  • Response
  • Reasons

• In Canada, things are very honest.

  

  Jim Pattison