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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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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If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
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We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great
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Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.
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A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction.
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I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.
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When you're young, influences count.
