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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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.
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I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not responsible for whether my students care or don’t care. That care has to come from them—not me.” “Where does that leave you?” “No matter what, Ari, my job is to care.” “Even when they don’t?” “Even when they don’t.” “No matter what?” “No matter what.
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It is a stupid observation, but the Labour Party are not an smart lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same town, you would blame bad parenting, wouldn't you all?
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The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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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.
