E. L. Doctorow Quotes
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
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My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.
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Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?
