Paul Haggis Quotes
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
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You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Dogs would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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Love is the strongest force in the world.
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I don't like people who don't have opinions.
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The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.
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Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.
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If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
