Mordecai Richler Quotes

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Inequality

• Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Education
  • Inspiration
  • Information

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Science
  • Energy
  • Problems

• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Happiness
  • Doing
  • Found

• We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Love
  • Mother

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Money

• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Work
  • Together
  • Soul

• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • School
  • Art

• I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Night
  • Professional
  • Performance

• Jane Campion is a tough director.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Tough
  • Director
  • Jane

• Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Emotional

• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Fear
  • Journey
  • Sorrow

• People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Job
  • Jobs
  • Valuable

• I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Acting
  • Careers
  • Moved

• I am settled in France, and as for the rest of my history as a painter, it is bound up with the impressionistic group.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Up
  • History
  • Rest

• The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Sexy
  • Reminded
  • First Concert

• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Same
  • Movement

• It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

  

  Efim Geller
  • Aims
  • Sacrificing
  • Regain

• Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Moved
  • Late
  • Elsewhere