Joe Mimran famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.
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Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen.
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No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property you have occupied if you can. In the end, that will be worth quite a bit of money.
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I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.
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There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.
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Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get a lot of support from the government. I think that's going to be required here in Canada, if we ever want to truly get behind the creativity that is here in this country.
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The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.
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In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too.
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There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.
-- Joe Mimran
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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You change the past when you change the way you see it.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we are all created equal and endowed by the Creator, God, with our unalienable rights.
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