Saul Bellow Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
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Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.
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I would have rather felt you round my throatCrushing out life, than waving me farewell!
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Guys like you make life easy for some women.
