E. L. Doctorow Quotes
I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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We should all love animals.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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People think I write weird, but there are people at Death Equinox that make me look like Danielle Steele.
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Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.
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Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.
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We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.
