Derek Walcott Quotes
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
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I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
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I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
