Derek Walcott Quotes
Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I love my sleep.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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We have a saying where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.
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University is great, but it wasn't right for me.
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With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there, you better focus on getting there because, as we live with these characters, we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Anybody great, we're all interested in the relics. If you found an unfinished Gauguin, you'd still want to see it.
