Maurice Saatchi Quotes
Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
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I got into the acting business very young.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
