Saul Bellow Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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I wouldn't think so unless the ground happens to be very fast and dry, then they might move the ball around a bit more.
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He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.
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He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
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A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
