Saul Bellow Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I love girl power.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
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We are very focused on the fact that people do not have a paycheck at this point. We want to get money into their pockets so they can make their own decisions on what they want to do.
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The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
