Saul Bellow Quotes
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that it's not difficult to love Mexico.
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I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: 'What's going on? Why aren't people responding?'
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There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.
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I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
