Don DeLillo Quotes
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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I love my black shirts; I have usually 14 of them at any one time.
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Commuter - one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.
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I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
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There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers - wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO.
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.
