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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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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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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
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To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.
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They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say 'now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like 'I want the ride... the first one... the boring one... the ride. I don't want the 'rrrride'... I want the ride!
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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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.
