Derek Walcott Quotes
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
Derek Walcott
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
Hanoi Hannah
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
Nate Parker
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
Feist
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
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In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.
James Forman, Jr.
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When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.
John Lurie
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Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
Chevy Stevens
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I don't need to be on the cover of 'Maxim.' But I want to feel good, and I do.
Arden Myrin
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On that day I had put a ban on TV channels because they were actually provoking trouble. But it was only for one day.
Narendra Modi
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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.
Derek Walcott