John Dos Passos Quotes

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

John Dos Passos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1896 - September 28, 1970

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The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

John Cameron

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N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

Jerry Heller

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I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

Robert Palmer

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I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

John Scalzi

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I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.

America Ferrera

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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.

Missy Elliott

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There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

Lucy Fisher

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I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

Jason Ritter

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I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

Janine di Giovanni

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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

Jonathan Haidt

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We don't want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could tell them that with passion, conviction, and determination we can build a better future. This future is possible by redesigning our economy to truly reward hard work rather than wealth.

Winnie Byanyima

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