Saul Bellow Quotes
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.
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The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
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If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.