E. L. Doctorow Quotes
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
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Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Privacy and security are the ultimate shared responsibility, and everyone - including governments, companies, and citizens - have an important role to play.
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Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?
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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
