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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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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New is easy. Right is hard.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision:it has become time to follow your heart.
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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
