Don DeLillo Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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In show business you learn to let it slide off your back. You know, fuck 'em. Otherwise you'd kill yourself.
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We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
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My style is a bit of what I like to call chic-casual. It is easy and comfortable.
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'Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.'