Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

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• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

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• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

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• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

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• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  

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• The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

  

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• If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

  

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• The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

  

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• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

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• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  

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• The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

  

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• I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

  

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• Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

  

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• When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

  

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• I'm sure, out of the context here of Stanley Levison's relationship with the Jewish liberal forces, that had made contributions. I remember one such contribution before they moved from Montgomery. An associate in the real estate business with Stanley had lost a son in the war, and she wanted to do something in memory of him. So, she made available certain monies to be used by the emerging leadership there in Montgomery. I'm sure other individuals did.

  

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• Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.

  

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• The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

  

  Saul Alinsky
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