Jim Pattison Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.
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A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
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Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.
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Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.
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When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
