John Ralston Saul Quotes
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
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Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
