John Ralston Saul Quotes
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
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I'm a religious man. I believe in God.
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Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad.
