Saul Bellow Quotes
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
Quotes to Explore
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
Randy Quaid
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
Gabby Douglas
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Yelawolf
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
Nanci Griffith
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
Maajid Nawaz
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Jack Black
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
J. M. Coetzee
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I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
Ed Harris
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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul Bellow
