Derek Walcott Quotes
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
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Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
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We generally did not talk about the stock market very much at the Fed.
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
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My height does help me. I can hide a multitude of sins in my height.
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There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.
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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
