John Ralston Saul Quotes
The ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of New York City, as if ten million bulls should and could be squeezed into a china shop.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.
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Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
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The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.
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Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of New York City, as if ten million bulls should and could be squeezed into a china shop.
