John Ralston Saul Quotes
There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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There is absolutely no reason why we have to deal with the mid-life crisis of our social policies by putting a bullet through their heads.
