Saul Bellow Quotes
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?Saul Bellow
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Jack Reed -
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt -
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Jackie Chan -
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
Ian Holm -
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
Talulah Riley -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney -
I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
Naomi Wolf -
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather -
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Natalie Goldberg -
But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
Patricia Hewitt -
The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
Oswald Chambers -
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Napoleon Hill -
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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What is well planted will not be uprooted.
Lao Tzu -
There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
Socrates -
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?
Saul Bellow