Saul Bellow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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It's beyond shameful this House can pass trillions of dollars in tax breaks for those with the most security but not see it to provide its way, see its way to provide health insurance for the children most in need.
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It was during this as a kid time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how to really and truly sing in a different way.... my way. It was an amazing experience because I also realized my lifelong dream - to sing my own songs...I have something to say and it was a great release for me to share that part of myself with others.
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
