Yann Martel Quotes
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer’d Fate.
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I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.
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I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
