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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The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
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Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.
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That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.
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If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.
