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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Michael Ondaatje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 12, 1943

Topics

Yourself You Create Why Argue

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

Good Mistakes Year Never First Size

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

John Hanning Speke

Small Leaving Milk Low Cows Butter

There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.

Man Spiritual Research World Slow

Alice Ripley was someone who had had a huge effect on me when I had gotten out of college and decided that this was the road I wanted to take - to write musicals.

College Me Road Someone Write Out

'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

Space Emergency Meat Contact About

The global warming hysterics don't just offer opinions and beliefs about greenhouse gases and the like. These are people who speak as if they belong to a cult.

People Speak Opinions Global Warming

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

Think Learn You More Things Like

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Battle Reach House Injustice White

Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

Music Time Art Thought Interesting

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

Duty Protect Citizens State

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

Love Great Me Start Independent Big

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

Cornelia Parker

Work Art Death Capitalism Aesthetic

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