"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Reading Quotes #Reason Quotes #Talk To Me Quotes

“I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.”
“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”
“But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”
“Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.”
“People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale.”

Source : "Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership". Book by James A. Champy, 1995.
“Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.”
“I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.”
“For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.”

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