Derek Walcott Quotes
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.
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No matter what part of the business you want to be in, live performances are the most thrilling.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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Alabama has made great progress in proving that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean are liable for the devastating effects of the oil spill.
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Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to express their opinions and to move freely within their communities.
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I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
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I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
