Maurice Saatchi Quotes
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
Quotes to Explore
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
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Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.
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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
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You're the only thing I want most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You cannot go where I walk." -Dank "Death" Walker
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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
