Yann Martel Quotes
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
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God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
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I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
