Derek Walcott Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.
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When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and paper and weighed every possible consequence. In favor of marriage he listed children, companionship, and the 'charms of music and female chit-chat.' Against marriage he listed the 'terrible loss of time,' lack of freedom to go where he wished, the burden of visiting relatives, the expense and anxiety provoked by children, the concern that 'perhaps my wife won't like London,' and having less money to spend on books. Weighing one column against the other produced a narrow margin of victory, and at the bottom Darwin scrawled, 'Marry—Marry—Marry Q.E.D.' Quod erat demonstrandum, the mathematical sign-off that Darwin himself restated in English: 'It being proved necessary to Marry.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
