Saul Bellow Quotes
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Music is organized sound.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
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When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Most people just aren't grateful for the lives they have, and it really saddens me. For instance, I said 'hello' to a man the other day, and he didn't even recognize me. It just really saddens me.
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Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.
