Yann Martel Quotes
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.
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Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
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When you're president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you're a Republican; if you're a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you're listening. And you should be listening.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
