John Ralston Saul Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?
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Fighting Maoism isn't like fighting an enemy across the border. They are civilians. The military and paramilitary have been trained to fight the enemy, but these are tribals dwelling in forests. They are also our citizens, whom we have ill-treated.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.
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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
