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John Ralston Saul Quotes

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

John Ralston Saul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Democracy Free Capitalism Run Will

Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.

Life Experience Yourself You Way

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

Time Bad I Can Go Nervous First

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Success Man Fame Question Him Trade

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom Justice Born Goodness Reason

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

Opinion Internet You Know Strange

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

Me My Own Write Own Take Songs

I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.

Myself Want Possible Authentic

There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

Singing Kitchen Doing You Cleaning

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Mother Child Canada She Ukrainian

I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.

Work School City Go Chicago Living

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Great Intelligence Thought Attention

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Weird First Same Animation Up Film

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