Jim Pattison Quotes

I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Experience
  • History
  • Democracy

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • More
  • Over
  • Atlas

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Job
  • Nice

• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • City
  • Years
  • New York

• You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • High
  • You

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• Es gibt kein öderes und widrigeres Geschöpf in der Natur als den Menschen, welcher seinem Genius ausgewichen ist und nun nach rechts und nach links, nach rückwärts und überallhin schielt. Man darf einen solchen Menschen zuletzt gar nicht mehr angreifen, denn er ist ganz Außenseite ohne Kern, ein anbrüchiges, gemaltes, aufgebauschtes Gewand.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Job
  • Play
  • Trench Kiss

• After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • People
  • Up
  • Forever

• I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.

  

  Jim Pattison
  • Fly