Yann Martel Quotes
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
Beau Willimon
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
Frances McDormand
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
Viktor Orban
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
Ted Yoho
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
Harmony Korine
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I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
Craig T. Nelson
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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
William Shakespeare
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It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.
David Tang
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Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Yann Martel
