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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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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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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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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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.
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When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
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Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
