Mordecai Richler Quotes
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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.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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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.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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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.
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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.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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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.
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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.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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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.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.
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There is a need for heroism in American life today.
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One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
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I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.
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Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
