Bill Reid Quotes
I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
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We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.
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Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
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I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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“Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.”
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
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I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.
