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Derek Walcott Quotes

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Work Care Person Just One Just Who

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Compassion Wrong Nothing System Some

When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.

People Hair Thought Trying Know Out

I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.

Hope Connections Farm Dream I Can

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Lawyer Years Fiction Playing Started

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Love Learning Fear Love Is Child Up

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.

Good Innovation Service Decisions

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Music Learn Listen Shapes Used Pop

There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go!

Montel Williams

Live Challenge Me Go Nothing Way

The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.

Women Men World Better Place Nobody

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Life Dog Wish Done Things Something

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Voice Generation Next Whatever Going

I think a great idea would be involving our various military services along the border all the way from San Diego to Houston. We've got military bases all over the country. We can just move some people down there and let those cartels who are doing a lot of hurt to the youth of America, let those cartels fight against the Marine Corps.

Great Fight People Youth Think Hurt

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