E. L. Doctorow Quotes
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov
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I don't want to be a bust.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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'I've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right'
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When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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North Korea is a unique socialist country in that its ruling ideology is conveyed through what is written about its leaders, not by them, and the message could hardly be simpler. Foreigners bad, Koreans good, Leader best.
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We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
