Don DeLillo Quotes
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Quotes to Explore
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
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Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer.
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What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.
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Imagination - that's the future for us.
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
