Joshua Jackson (Joshua Browning Carter Jackson) Quotes
The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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I will persist until I succeed. I was not deIivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd.
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A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
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I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.
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The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.
