V. S. Naipaul Quotes

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

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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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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.

  

  Ted Deutch
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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.

  

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

  

  Zendaya
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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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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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're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

  

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• You cloak your evil, your violence, in the mask of good. I am just evil.

  

  Carrie Jones
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• I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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• Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

  

  Steve Earle
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• I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

  

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

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
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