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 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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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It's an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.
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You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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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.
