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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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 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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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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I will take away your means of escape.
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Well, everybody has a history.
