Derek Walcott Quotes

I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.

Derek Walcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
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  • Birth: January 23, 1930

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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Andrea Mitchell

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I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Meg Whitman

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The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

John Marshall

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If you want something bad enough and you work hard enough, anything's possible.

Amy Purdy

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I've always been a shy person.

Simon Baker

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I make a personal commitment to the direction and success of all the programs in which I invest. I make all major philanthropic decisions myself after taking account of a range of expert opinion.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

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My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Judah Friedlander

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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Clive Bell

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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Brendan Behan

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The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

Brie Larson

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