Derek Walcott Quotes
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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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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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.
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One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
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The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
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My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.
