Derek Walcott Quotes

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Trying
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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
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• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
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• The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Good
  • Kids
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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
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• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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  • Want
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• The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Blood
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• Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Good
  • School
  • Very

• I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

  

  Christina Ricci
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• Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

  

  Jayne Meadows

• The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
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• Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • People
  • Kids
  • Reading

• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

  

  John Sununu
  • Risk
  • Effort
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• My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Friends