Jim Pattison Quotes
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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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.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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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.
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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.
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Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
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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.
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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.
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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
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I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
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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.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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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.
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'You can't buy love with money.' Only a poor person says that.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.
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I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
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All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy.
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Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
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In Canada, things are very honest.
