Don DeLillo Quotes
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers -
I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin -
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen -
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy -
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes -
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
Frances Farmer
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I'm easy to hate.
Olivia Munn -
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
Vikas Swarup -
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.
Rahm Emanuel -
My parents were hippies.
Rachel Kushner -
I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
Damon Galgut -
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
P. T. Barnum
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
Vin Scully -
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf Karsh -
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
Warren Farrell -
I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.
Natsuo Kirino -
I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
Samuel Beckett
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There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.
Ben Bernanke -
'The 100' gave me this platform I never expected. I didn't expect the character to become anything. I was originally only signed up to do six episodes, and then it just sort of become this whole story and journey, which was an amazing character, a great journey, so that has been incredible, and I didn't expect anything out of it.
Alycia Debnam-Carey -
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
Carson McCullers -
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.
Tom Conti -
I heard a noise, faint, monotonous, white.
Don DeLillo