Don DeLillo Quotes
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.
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I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
