Derek Walcott Quotes
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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All art is a confession.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having 'too much' sex. At what point does a 'healthy' amount become 'too much'? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their cases the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such.
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…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
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The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.
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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
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The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.
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When you're young, influences count.
