E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
Jacob deGrom -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James -
I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
Tariq Anwar
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton -
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
W. Bruce Cameron -
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch -
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. Wilson
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins -
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama -
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
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I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.
Mary Lynn Rajskub -
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
H. L. Mencken -
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
Yann Martel -
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon -
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Deborah Tannen -
To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
E. L. Doctorow