John Ralston Saul Quotes
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.
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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
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An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.
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There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
