John Ralston Saul Quotes
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.John Ralston Saul
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
Iris Apfel -
I'm not Cinderella.
Valerie Trierweiler -
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White -
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard -
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
Narendra Modi -
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
Karen Bender -
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Barbara Kruger -
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger -
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
Nathan Lane
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean -
We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews -
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
Poppy Delevingne -
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters -
You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
LeRoy Neiman -
Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
Kristin Hersh -
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
Patrick deWitt -
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.
John Ralston Saul