John Ralston Saul Quotes

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

John Ralston Saul

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• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Go
  • Chef

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • People
  • Know
  • Band

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• In our league, it comes right down to the end.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • End
  • Right
  • Down

• My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Well

• Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Great
  • Business
  • Revolution

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Free
  • Church

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Thought
  • First
  • Rapper

• Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Remember
  • Success

• Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

  

  Lu Yu
  • Heaven

• There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Real
  • Law
  • Democracy

• My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Dad

• Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Real
  • Money
  • Value