Saul Bellow Quotes
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.Saul Bellow
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly -
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Naveen Jain -
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins -
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg -
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
Larry Wilmore -
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston -
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
Larry Hagman -
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
Barbara Fialho -
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Ted Turner -
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
Jack Markell
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver -
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
P. J. Soles -
I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
Rachel Kushner -
My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
Oliver Stone -
I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
Rajneesh -
Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman
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That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement.
Basil Rathbone -
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
James Dickey -
A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.
Jenny Eclair -
It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.
John Hillcoat -
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.
Seth Meyers -
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow