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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Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
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'Monster Trucks' is like a big action movie.
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
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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.
