Don DeLillo Quotes
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Quotes to Explore
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I'm a firm believer that if you put together a good product that is just good policy, that is embraced by both sides so that it is seen as politically advantageous to the Republicans or Democrats, that even in this very polarized partisan world that you can advance legislation. I have to believe that, or I wouldn't want to get up every morning.
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The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
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Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
