Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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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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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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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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I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
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My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
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Unfortunately for Mr. McClellan, the evidence that Mr. Bush's chat with the soldiers was rehearsed and rehearsed within an inch of its life was all on tape.
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You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
