A. Y. Jackson Quotes
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Special operations are small, highly specialized. They do amazing work when they're put into the fight, but it's a limited resource. And so if we become overly dependent on an organization that's designed for a very specific mission and expect them to solve all problems around the world, you're naturally going to overextend it.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.
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For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
