Don DeLillo Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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We looked like we were lethargic out there. We shot 50 percent in the first half, and had 16 turnovers to go with that, which is not acceptable. The second half was a disappointment not only with the choice of shots, but with the execution. Golden State had something to do with that.
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
