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John Ralston Saul Quotes

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

John Ralston Saul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 19, 1947

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God Society Hell Going Been Who

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

Back Everything Out Coming Buy Your

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Fool Gold Proud More Neighbors Mine

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Art School Play Piano Ear Learned

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

Character Myself Me Place Kind

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Beautiful Woman Me Desert Energy

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

Me Reading Story Loved Short Always

What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?

Happiness Pursuit Of Happiness Choose

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.

Father Fire People Me Growing Up

You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.

Johnny Van Zant

Music People Think You Ask Through

I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.

Learning Mind Learn You Young Tell

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

I Am Black White President Real

My dad's family was from Tennessee. I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, where we lived at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a kid, I was totally into Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was so part of who I was.

Family Mountains Blue Rock Top Kid

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