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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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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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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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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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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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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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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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in 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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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.
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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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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
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Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
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I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.
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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.
