"The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early."

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Source : Quoted in Time (Canadian ed.), 31 May 1971

Mordecai Richler

#Growing Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Kids Quotes

“We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?”
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.”
“Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.”
“I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.”
“It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2003). “The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”, Chaosium Fiction Series
“I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.”
“It's about listening first, then selling.”

Source : Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
“This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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