Michael Ondaatje Quotes
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
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Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
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What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
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You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.
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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
