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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

E. L. Doctorow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Justice Money Progress Feel Solution

I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous - from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.

Megyn Kelly

Me Hotel Fabulous Hard Clearly Only

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Robert Lanza

Time Space Nothing Without

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

Anna Deavere Smith

School People High School America

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

King Bible Language Better Years He

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Simon Baker

Love Good Same Successful Would

The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy. If it's a comedy with Latinos in it, it's a Latino comedy. 'Normal' is white male, and I find that to be shocking and ridiculous.

Shonda Rhimes

Perspective Woman World Comedy You

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Mike Huckabee

Me Problems Trying Never Office

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

Michael Owen

Love Mother Alone Children Winner

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

Janet Yellen

Age Old Age Chance Die Year Old

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

Jose Saramago

Myself Political Kind Outside Social

It's funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don't feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who's doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it's more possible.

Demetri Martin

Funny People Start Think Doing You

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

Deborah Eisenberg

Myself American Complicated Define