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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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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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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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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We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Act which would correct the Supreme Court decision that was just recent that essentially guts wage discrimination law. It's been in place for years. It was gutted by this Roberts Court. We want it to be reversed by legislation. We hope that Congress passes it and that is on the desk for [Barack] Obama to sign as one of his first acts once he's sworn in. So it - I could go on, we have quite a well-developed list.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.
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If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
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Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.
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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 think continually of those who were truly great.
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Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
