Mordecai Richler Quotes
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
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I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.
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I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.
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I began … to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.
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As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.
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If I'm blessed enough to have financial freedom in this world, my family is the ones I owe thanks to first.
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I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.
