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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Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
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Guys like you make life easy for some women.