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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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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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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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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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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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
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The people of New Jersey stepped up. They shared in the sacrifice. You know what else they did? They rewarded politicians who lead instead of politicians who pandered.
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I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.
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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.
