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I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.


Derek Jeter

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DEREK LANDY I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
DEREK LANDY All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ...
DEREK WALCOTT How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requ...
DEREK WALL The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
DEREK JARMAN Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...
DEREK WALCOTT Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
DEREK WALCOTT I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surf...
DEREK JARMAN If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
DEREK WALCOTT The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malprac...
DEREK JARMAN One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flower...
DEREK JARMAN Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH