John Ralston Saul Quotes
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
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The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.
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I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.
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Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.
