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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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'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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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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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did it.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.
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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.
