Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

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• When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

  

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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

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• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

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• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  

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• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
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• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

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• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

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• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

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• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
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• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

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• The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

  

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• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

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• A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

  

  Martin Compston
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• With my own material, I like maintaining lyric integrity. I like having sophisticated lyrics, and maybe that's not down-the-middle Top 40 pop, but it reflects my style, my life, the way I speak, and the way I tell what's happening with my life emotionally, so in that way, it's authentic to me.

  

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• When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

  

  Alexander Payne
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• I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.

  

  Claire Messud
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• Harry Dresden: The freaking Council never does anything quickly, and I had a bad feeling that tempus was fugiting furiously.

  

  Jim Butcher
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• While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe
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