John Ralston Saul Quotes
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Naval Ravikant
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
Fetty Wap
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
Mahershala Ali
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
Nancy Willard
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
G-Eazy
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
Gary Bauer
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
Ted Deutch
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
Aaron Lazar
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Penn Jillette
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Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
Christopher Walken
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Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.
Debby Ryan
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One man's cult is another man's religion.
Annie Parisse
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Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
John Ralston Saul