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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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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I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
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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.
