Don DeLillo Quotes

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Don DeLillo

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• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Play
  • Study
  • First

• Alaska itself is an unusual state.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Unusual
  • Itself
  • Alaska

• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Mathematics
  • Taught
  • Pure

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Movies

• I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Camera

• In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Life
  • Art
  • Act

• The only people that should vote should be legal.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Vote
  • Legal

• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Law
  • Born

• I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Service

• All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Star
  • Hard
  • Very

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Free
  • Small

• I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Discipline

• We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• Ben che stia mal che l'uom se stesso lodi.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Ocean

• Those who say that without the monarchy Britain would be a banana republic are closing their eyes to the banana republic features which the cult of monarchy necessitates. Dazzled by the show, moreover, they may be missing other long-run tendencies towards banana-dom which it is the partial function of monarchy to obscure.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Long
  • May
  • Eyes

• The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by addressing the root causes of terrorism and conflict. But it's not just about security. By building new markets overseas for American products, the International Affairs Budget creates jobs and boosts the economy here at home.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Programs

• For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

  

  Rumi
  • Know
  • Outside
  • Copying

• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • Decision
  • Mistake

• I'm always on the court with my dad.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Court

• Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'

  

  Christian Bale
  • Why
  • Couple

• I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

  

  Don DeLillo