E. L. Doctorow Quotes
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.
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I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.
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When I shake someone's hand, I apply the lightest pressure on their wrist with my index and middle fingers and lead them across my body to my left. The cross-body lead is actually a move from salsa dancing. I'm finding out what kind of a partner they're going to be, and I know that if they follow my lead, I can do whatever I want with them.
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We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
