Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
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Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.
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I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.
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Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
