Saul Bellow Quotes
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
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Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
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If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.