Saul Bellow Quotes
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
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When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.
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I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.
