John Ralston Saul Quotes
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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I like to improvise.
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Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I love to be surprised.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
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We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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Stop it,” I said. “Just stop it!” I knew I was starting to cry and I was so sick, sick, sick to death of all those sad damned tears I had inside me. How could I have so many tears living there, in my body? How could they fit? When was it going to stop? When?
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Cinema plays an important role in uniting the entire nation as a single unit.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.
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I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.
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Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
