Don DeLillo Quotes
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Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
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The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.
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Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
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After that, I was on the right track to the city centre, where there was enough light to distinguish people from letter boxes. The letter boxes, in my perhaps embittered view, had warmer personalities than the people.
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
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If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
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'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
