Michael Ondaatje Quotes
There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
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I'm not saving lives.
Rachel Weisz
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
Orlando Bloom
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
Pat Benatar
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
Rachel Roy
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No damn man kills me and lives.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
Tatiana Maslany
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
Candace Bushnell
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
W. G. Sebald
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
Walker Evans
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
Joe Lieberman
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
Oswald Chambers
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
Oswald Chambers
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We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders.
Jack Straw
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
Keanu Reeves
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
Adolf Loos
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I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.
Loudon Wainwright III
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I've been really lucky.
Kat Dennings
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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
George Foreman
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
Michael Ondaatje