Derek Walcott Quotes
You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Quotes to Explore
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
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Getting my curveball back and finding another pitch just helped me figure out how to pitch.
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You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
