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.
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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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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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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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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
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I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
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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.
