Maurice Saatchi Quotes
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!'
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It's not really a rule-it's more like a trend.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that strangles individual opportunity and economic freedom.
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
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I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.
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The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
