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.
Michael Ondaatje
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
Oliver Evans
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
Samuel Larsen
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
Dan Castellaneta
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
Hale Irwin
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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.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Nathan Lane
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The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. '...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.'
Lewis Black
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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.
Bill Bradley
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For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
Marie Windsor
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
Cofer Black
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
Kate Upton
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
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As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Kathleen Rubins
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
Trace Adkins
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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.
Michael Ondaatje