Derek Walcott Quotes
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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There are boxing fans, and there are fans of the UFC. People want to see blood, but people like both.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
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The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
