Derek Walcott Quotes

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Small

• The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Work
  • Important
  • Single

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Different
  • History
  • Violence

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Listening
  • View

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Creative

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Trying
  • Best

• Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer

• You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • World
  • Strong
  • Control

• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun. You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Artist

• The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • World
  • History