Saul Bellow Quotes
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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I'm not that interested in people.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
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Be strong to hope, O Heart!Though day is bright,The stars can only shineIn the dark night.Be strong, O Heart of mine,Look towards the light!
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You don't have to be blond or blue eyes or taller or smaller...just have to be who you need to be, and that's help people become who they are.
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
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I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.
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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
