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.John Ralston Saul
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa -
It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
Tabitha Soren -
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
Mac Thornberry -
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
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.
Waylon Jennings -
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
Kate Moss -
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.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
Valorie Curry -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
K. V. Thomas -
Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
Aaron Patzer -
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.
Zoe Tapper -
I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
Laura Linney -
Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
Zola Budd -
Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
Dan Pink
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There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.
Cory Booker -
I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
Jim Lee -
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .
Charles Tomlinson -
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.
John Ralston Saul