Derek Walcott Quotes
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.
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One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.
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We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.
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In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.
