Don DeLillo Quotes
I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and condemn the anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and Khalid Muhammed.
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As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
