V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
