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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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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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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.
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A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.
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In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’
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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
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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.
