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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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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Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
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Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
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I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.
Nastassja Kinski -
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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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.
