Derek Walcott Quotes
A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The American Federation of Teachers has a long track record of working with administrators, parents, and communities to provide real help to struggling students and low-performing schools. We've learned that intensive interventions, proven programs, and adequate resources can transform students' lives and their schools.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
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Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.
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This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
