Saul Bellow Quotes
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
Quotes to Explore
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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After Le Havre, I became the youngest player in the first division in Reunion. I made my debut at 16. That's how I got spotted by Nantes.
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It's always nice to hear people say, 'You sound the same,' when I know I don't.
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I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.
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When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
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Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'
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The supreme trial of the Constitution came at last under the tremendous pressure of civil war. We ourselves are witnesses that the Union emerged from the blood and fire of that conflict purified and made stronger for all the beneficent purposes of good government.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
