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.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Inspiration
  • Movies
  • Video

• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actors
  • Knowing
  • Position

• I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Way
  • Where

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Train

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • World
  • Forget
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Art
  • Future
  • Reality

• Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • May
  • Opinion
  • Competition

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Makeup
  • Explore
  • Human Race

• It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Reality
  • Opinion