V. S. Naipaul Quotes

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

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• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

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• There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
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• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

  

  Forrest Mars, Jr.
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• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
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• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

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• But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
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• What makes a good family? Well, I suppose obviously love. Love lubricated often I think by humor. I think a family that can laugh at each other and tease themselves and who are able to be jolly with each other I think is the key.

  

  Stephen Fry
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• Even when a pilot goes, you shoot it in March or April, and then you have to rush it through post-production by May. If they greenlight it, then you go and there's no time to think about it. And then, you've gotta start shooting in July, so you're off to the races.

  

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• ...thinking which does not start from and continue in close relation to its foundations in the physical universe must lead to falsity.

  

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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