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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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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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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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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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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Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
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Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.
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What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
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The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
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I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.
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Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.
