Yann Martel Quotes
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
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Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority.
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You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
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I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
