Yann Martel Quotes
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before
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We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Pay attention to how we move things
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Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!
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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
