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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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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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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Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.
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I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad.
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I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.
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A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".
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Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Love is the use one makes of another.
