Derek Walcott Quotes
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.
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You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage.
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I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.
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I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.
