Derek Walcott Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I owe everything to France.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.
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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.