Michael Ondaatje Quotes
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
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For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
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I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
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I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
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In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Proclaiming the gospel is not an activity in which we periodically and temporarily engage.
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I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
