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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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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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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A lot of Wynonna is what I wish I could be. I don't like confrontation. I'm pretty polite. But I think she's the side of me that, if I could be free, that's who I'd be.
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I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
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It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.
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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.
