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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

E. L. Doctorow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

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Great Beginning Man Saying Great Man

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

Angus Deaton

Growth Legal Political Play Role

I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

John Piper

Good God Time I Am Me Believe

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

Amy Bloom

Life Reading Television Way Write

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Stanley Tucci

Money Project Not Interested Wasting

I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

Rosamund Pike

Time Think Looks Lucky Never Pretty

Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

Louis Armstrong

You First Tell Round Well Melody

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Jonathan Powell

People Doors You Will Sausage Like

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Jordan Peterson

Technology Opportunity Freedom Gift

I'm not scared of anything.

Jon Jones

Scared Anything

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.

Drew Brees

Myself Me Chance Know Years Here

I give tremendous weight to my positive reviews and none whatsoever to my negative ones.

Chris Pavone

Positive Negative Give Weight None

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.

William Lilly

Mother Age Year Died