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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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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I always wanted to do something completely different.
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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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I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
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I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
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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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I like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands.
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As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
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Truth in the end shall prevail.
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I think intellectuals should be fascinated by my rise, what it reveals about the time. My critics are irrelevant, though. It tells how much I'm getting to them by how vitriolic they are. They refuse to deal with the ideas. But reviews don't reflect anything; the books are selling. A friend told me, 'The attacks make you.'
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We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.
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Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
