John Ralston Saul Quotes
Happy family: The existence and maintenance of this is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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It is always your next move.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.
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Happy family: The existence and maintenance of this is thought to make a politician fit for public office. According to this theory, the public are less concerned by whether or not they are effectively represented than by the need to be assured that the penises and vaginas of public officials are only used in legally sanctioned circumstances.
