Don DeLillo Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Tribeca Film Festival Doha will promote Middle Eastern themes and filmmakers, but not exclusively. Approximately 40 films will be presented at the new Museum of Islamic Art and in cinemas across Doha. Innovative work by established filmmakers will be shown alongside the debuts of newly discovered directing talents.
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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
