Mordecai Richler Quotes
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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No one person is an island.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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I sing just for fun.
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I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where.
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I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.
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Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.
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Real revolution starts with learning.
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
