Yann Martel Quotes
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.Yann Martel
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
Brown Campbell -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
Victoria Abril -
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin -
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
Dan Futterman
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A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
Zara Larsson -
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
Natalie Portman -
Say yes to everything.
Aaron Swartz -
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves -
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Ralph Peters -
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I have a lot of vanity.
Jack Nicholson -
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver -
When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
Yitzhak Shamir
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
J. Cole -
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Khalil Gibran -
I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
Jonny Weston -
I am so girly. I love dresses.
Amber Riley -
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
Yann Martel