Don DeLillo Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• 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

• I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Great
  • Past
  • Energy

• I've had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I've been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Career
  • Blessed

• I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Doubt
  • Sad

• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Human
  • Slavery
  • Questions

• I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • People
  • Time
  • Retirement

• You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Writing
  • Strong
  • Trust

• I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

  

  Jason Dohring
  • Guy
  • Sports
  • Baseball

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

  

  Don DeLillo