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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The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
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I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.
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I've always wanted to live in the '60s and '70s and wear wide pants, knee high boots, and oversized denim jackets.
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Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose, And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And many a Garden by the Water blows.
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When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.
