Yann Martel Quotes
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
Kate Brown -
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.
Barbara Corcoran -
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.
Katha Pollitt -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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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.
Hans Haacke -
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. Wilson -
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht -
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales -
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Vera Farmiga -
I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
Forest Whitaker -
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?
Ira Glass -
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.
Mads Mikkelsen -
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.
Garth Nix -
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
Rachel Stevens
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I like Brando's acting … and James Dean … and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley -
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper -
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
Oswald Chambers -
To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
Natalie Massenet -
We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
Kenny Dalglish -
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Yann Martel