Don DeLillo Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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Design is Law
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
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American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
