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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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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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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The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
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But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
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It's been somewhat of a tumultuous season despite being 21-1 at this point. That's everyday life at New London and we know how to deal with that and move on.
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
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Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.
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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.
