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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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 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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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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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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You want to empower people who think like you do.
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.
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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.
