Mordecai Richler Quotes
There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me.
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We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
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It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.
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The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.
