E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
Quotes to Explore
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
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I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?
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Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.
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There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.
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A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
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I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
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Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
