Jim Pattison Quotes
People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.
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I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.
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People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
