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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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
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The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
