John Ralston Saul Quotes
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
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Politics swings like a pendulum.
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My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
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Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
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The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
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Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.
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I think we have a really good work ethic, and we’re committed to not only being professional on set but also working hard to do what it takes to get the job. But I also think having an Aussie accent is a bit of a drawcard! It’s something different and people seem to like it-let’s just go with that!
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If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.
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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
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Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
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It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
