John Ralston Saul Quotes
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.
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I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
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It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.
