Maurice Saatchi Quotes
If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
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In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.
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If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
