Mordecai Richler Quotes

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Mordecai Richler

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• As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

  

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• I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

  

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• We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

  

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• Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  

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• It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

  

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• You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
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• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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• If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Up
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• If I was so establishment, I don't think Our Revolution... would actually endorse me.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
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• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
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• You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

  

  David Talbot

• Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

  

  Paolo Nutini
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• Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

  

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• Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

  

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• In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

  

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• I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

  

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• A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
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  • Defend
  • Covenant

• Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

  

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• As long as I get a medal, I'm okay with sharing it.

  

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• One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.

  

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• If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Humorists
  • Jehovah