John Ralston Saul Quotes
Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
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We need to truly examine land movement of water craft. We need a gate-keeping process. The mussel is not easy to combat. It's not easy to spot.
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Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.
