Bonnie McFarlane Quotes
My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I want to make people laugh.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.
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Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.
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'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.
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I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
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I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
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My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
