Yann Martel Quotes
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.
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I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.
