Don DeLillo Quotes
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.
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London theatre is different: it is a commercial theatre that brings the whole of society into one place. And Shakespeare grasped, better than anyone else, what it means to engage the entire audience.
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Every start upon an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to be successful.
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Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.