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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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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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
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In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.
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Guys like you make life easy for some women.
