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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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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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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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.
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And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.
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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.
