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.
Olivia Wilde
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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.
Eddie Trunk
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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.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Garry Shandling
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
Hailey Bieber
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
G. Edward Griffin
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben
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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.
Vernon Jordan
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
Iain Glen
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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.
Wendy Kopp
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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.
Olympia Snowe
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett
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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.
Ted Yoho
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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.
Lana Wachowski
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
Yuna
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
Barry Lam
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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.
Garret Dillahunt
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
Ralph Steadman
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This may be the final frontier for pop, more unbelievable than the prospect of launching a member of 'N Sync into orbit.
Elvis Mitchell
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
Ace Frehley Kiss
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I am somebody. I am a somebody. I am a child of God. I may not be educated but I am somebody. I may not have any money but I am somebody. I may not eat steak every day but I am somebody. I may not look the way you look but I am somebody.
Jesse Jackson
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
Derek Walcott