Jim Pattison Quotes
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I love doing every role I do!
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
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There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.
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Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
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If we didn't have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups.
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The early pioneers of both wellness and network marketing were motivated by the sense that it was possible to create a better life than the conventional routes offered - better personal health and better economic health, respectively. Now the 'alternatives' of yesterday have become the economic powerhouses of today and tomorrow.
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Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?
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During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
