Don DeLillo Quotes
I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.
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They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.
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The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.
