Saul Bellow Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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A work can be as powerful as it can be thought to be. Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.
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Your neighbors will be envious of your 3D printer - and if they're not, just print new neighbors. Design them so they'll like to bring you pies, maybe, or want to do your yard work for you.
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I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.
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Hugging is not my shtick.
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
