Don DeLillo Quotes
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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We don't work with anyone.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.
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The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
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Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that, you know, and, um, be faithful in what happens.
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The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.
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Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
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It's hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
