Jim Pattison Quotes
No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.
Quotes to Explore
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
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It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.
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No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.
