Yann Martel Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
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I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
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I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
