Yann Martel Quotes

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 25, 1963

Topics

LiveArtReligionEvilYouGo

People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.

Jillian Michaels

PeopleBlessedThinkYouTrueTend

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

Andy Dunn

EmpathyAnimalAnimalsPossibleMost

Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.

Robert Reich

PeopleInsuranceEveryonePayOnly

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

Robert Griffin III

FootballPeopleCollegeYouAthlete

Anyone and everyone can and will succeed.

Mike Moreno

SucceedWillEveryoneAnyone

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, 'Oh, she's nice,' rather than, 'Oh, she's so pretty.'

Millie Bobby Brown

PeopleMeThinkCareLookNice

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Ludacris

LoveTechnologyGoOwnWhereverDJs

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Joss Whedon

LightDayStoryBackGoWant

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Philip Zimbardo

GoodGood And EvilEvilLineForces

'American Idol' was just really a platform. What you do after that is what separates you from the show. And I've been working really hard, touring constantly, and building those fans. You've got to work hard.

Phillip Phillips

WorkWork HardBuildingAmericanYou

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

Rem Koolhaas

BeginningCreativeI AmEndNeed

The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option.

Marie Helvin

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