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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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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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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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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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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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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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.
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The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
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Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
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Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.
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It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.
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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.
