Yann Martel Quotes
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.
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As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
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I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
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Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.
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Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
