John Ralston Saul Quotes
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I wish I sang better.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
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When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'
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I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
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I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.
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In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.
