Yann Martel Quotes
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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I want to write something that celebrates life, that's fun to listen to.
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As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.
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When I started on 'Strictly,' I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.
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I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
