Mordecai Richler Quotes
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
Mordecai Richler
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
Walt Mossberg
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
Kate Middleton
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Manika
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
Sally Pearson
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
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When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'
J. B. Smoove
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
Gary Ackerman
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There are no ordinary moments.
Dan Millman
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
Gaby Hoffmann
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
Viggo Mortensen
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
Karin Slaughter
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'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
Emily V. Gordon
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There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.
Vittorio De Sica
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In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.
Judith Butler
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I will never have a heart attack. I give them.
George Steinbrenner
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
Mordecai Richler
