Charles Rennie Mackintosh Quotes
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
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If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we're making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
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Art is the flower... life the green leaf.
