Derek Walcott Quotes
I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I'm getting less jobs 'cause my face is changing, and then the men... But at the same time, I'm pretty competitive. I don't know if I'd bow out. I might still be acting when I'm in a wheelchair.
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I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
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We are easily deceived about government because we are inclined to accept the following fallacies: (a) Anything legal is also moral. (b) We are not individually responsible for government action. (c) A different moral law applies to men in concert than it does when they act alone.
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Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.
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The difference between working on Asian and American films is in the producer and director; everyone has their own style. But, Hollywood has a lot more money; they can spend a lot on films, and time. In Europe, there's a small budget and thinking about commercial. Only budget and taste is different between there and Hollywood.
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I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
