Yann Martel Quotes
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
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When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
