Saul Bellow Quotes
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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I always train 100 percent.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
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We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it
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I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.
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Only about 25 percent of our participants actively ski.
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People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
