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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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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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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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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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.'
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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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Shooting 'Adam & Paul' was very tough. There was barely enough time, and the budget was tiny. On top of that, we shot in dangerous locations where we had little or no control or security.
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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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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.
