Don DeLillo Quotes

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Know

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Day
  • Couple

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • People
  • Dumb
  • Envy

• I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • People
  • Response
  • Pirates of the Caribbean

• The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Innovation

• As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Know
  • Spring

• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Country
  • Age
  • Police

• It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • People