Yann Martel Quotes
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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Sometimes I play for the media, sometimes for the fans, sometimes for my sponsors, and sometimes it's for my family. Really, I play for everyone.
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As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
