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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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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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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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
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What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.
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The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
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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.
