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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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
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I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
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I played piano, I learned a lot about music.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
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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?
