Michael Ondaatje Quotes
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
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I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.
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I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
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A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
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One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.
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We are one another’s angels.
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I'm not the type of person who makes a lot of songs in a day just to see which one is the best.
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HE WORLD LOOKS AT YOU and sees one person; you look in the mirror and see another.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Music is another planet.
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Sebastian will never fight wars, but it's because of people like him that the rest of us don't have to fight as many of them. He makes everyone around him more than what they are.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
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Love is the use one makes of another.
