John Ralston Saul Quotes
I am struck by the curious reflection that if everything is inevitable, as our élites tell us, well then we don't really need them. After all, this is the biggest and most expensive élite in history. Either they should do their job or make way.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
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I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?
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And that's the key to George W. Bush: It's that he wants to be the smartest person in the room. But in order to be the smartest person in the room, you kinda have to fill that room with a lot of dim bulbs. And that's where we get the Alberto Gonzaleses, and the Harriet Mierses, and the 'you're-doing-a-heck-of-a-job-Brownie''s.
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I am struck by the curious reflection that if everything is inevitable, as our élites tell us, well then we don't really need them. After all, this is the biggest and most expensive élite in history. Either they should do their job or make way.
