E. L. Doctorow Quotes
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.E. L. Doctorow
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John -
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
Carl Hagelin
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary -
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson -
You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
Sam Altman -
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
Larry David -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman -
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
Rainn Wilson -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Magnus Scheving -
I love football, football is my life.
Wayne Rooney -
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
Paris Hilton
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Faith is the means by which the righteousness of Christ is given to us.
R. C. Sproul -
We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.
Larry Hogan -
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.
Strom Thurmond -
The arts in every field - music, drama, sculpture, painting - we can learn to appreciate and enjoy. We need not be artists, but we should be able to appreciate the work of artists. (5 November 1958)
Eleanor Roosevelt -
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow