Jim Pattison Quotes
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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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.'
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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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.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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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.
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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.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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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.
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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!
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I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.
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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.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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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.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I probably fly twice a week, within Canada and the States.
