Don DeLillo Quotes
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
