Saul Bellow Quotes
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
Quotes to Explore
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
