Saul Bellow Quotes
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.
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Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
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What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
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I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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Facts always are sensational.
