Joel A. Barker Quotes
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
