Yann Martel Quotes
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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I think it's just important for people to lead by example.
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A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness.
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The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
