Bill McLaren Quotes
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
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As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.
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You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
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The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
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A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.
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When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.
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People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
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I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
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I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
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As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.
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I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.
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Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
