OMI Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Acting is in your soul.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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There were some parts of himself that he would probably never find because he dared not go looking for them in the shadows where she had cast them.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
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I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore...
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I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.
