Saul Bellow Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
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Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.
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History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
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Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.
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Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.
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Well, everybody has a history.
