Yann Martel Quotes

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

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• I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Rest

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Real
  • Name
  • Last

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Earth

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Economy
  • Finding
  • Sharing

• Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Children
  • Heart

• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Then
  • You Can Do It

• We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Harmony

• There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Meaningful
  • Lovely

• I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

  

  David Ortiz
  • People
  • Game
  • Feeling

• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Death
  • Name

• Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Good

• If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Help
  • Technology