E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
Harmony Korine
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Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.
Miranda Lambert
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I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
Eric Idle
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I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.
Robin LaFevers
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Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.
David Baboulene
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow