Saul Bellow Quotes
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.
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Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
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Women are tough; women are resilient and have an undying hope.
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When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
