Derek Walcott Quotes
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Victoria Woodhull
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All art is a confession.
Gaston Lachaise
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Ira Glass
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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.
Paddy Chayefsky
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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When questions of 'class' interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.
James Connolly
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Everything is only a dream.
Emile Zola
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My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.
Megan Fox
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The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
Catherine Fisher
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I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.
Mike Rowe
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When you're young, influences count.
Derek Walcott
