Derek Walcott Quotes
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
Tania Raymonde -
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
Daniel Gillies -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion -
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
Becky G -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
Yaya Han -
The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
Fabrizio Moreira -
'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
Jack Keane -
Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
Karin Slaughter -
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
Walter Kirn -
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
Freida Pinto -
...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.
Donald Trump -
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.
Marianne Williamson -
George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
Gary Weiss -
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
Derek Walcott