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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We need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty’s most difficult intellectual task.
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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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"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.
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'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
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Love is the use one makes of another.
