Saul Bellow Quotes
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.
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I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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Planetary Citizenship reveals a vital blueprint for a compassionate and sustainable world. Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda make a formidable team stepping forward as humanity's guides in this great transition to the next stage of social evolution.
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
