Yann Martel Quotes
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
