Derek Walcott Quotes
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.
Quotes to Explore
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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Only the young die good.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
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There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
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Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.
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I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
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My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
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Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.
