Mordecai Richler Quotes

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Mordecai Richler

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• Canada
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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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• 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
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• 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
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• There are no ordinary moments.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Moments
  • Ordinary

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Living
  • Deserve
  • Wage

• I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

  

  Valerie June
  • Want
  • First
  • Admire

• It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Important
  • Family
  • Cancer

• I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hand

• He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Forever
  • Laughter

• I always wear Nike trainers and love a hoodie. I have a big black and gold one from Adidas that I'm obsessed with.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Black
  • Gold

• A line has to have a certain number of syllables, and the next line has to be its mirror image.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mirror

• If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game

• Once in a while I do put up a video or a thank you tweet for my fans. I think our interaction cements our bond. Getting so much love from them makes me feel blessed.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Up
  • Blessed

• There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • America
  • Small

• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • War
  • Giving
  • Failure

• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Giving
  • Respect
  • Understanding

• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Giving
  • Nobody
  • Canada