Saul Bellow Quotes
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?'
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
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America may be the best country, but that's like being the prettiest Denny's waitress. Just because you're the best doesn't mean you're good.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
