Saul Bellow Quotes
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
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When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.
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There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
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We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.
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First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.
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I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
