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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I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.
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The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.
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'Virginia?' he said, as if I had asked him if there was anywhere local we could get a dose of syphilis.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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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.
