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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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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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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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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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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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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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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I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.
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I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.
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Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.
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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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'Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.'
