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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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 cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.
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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.
