V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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I need to work to feel well.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!
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A cat only has itself.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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What WE can do together Far exceeds what we can do alone.
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In particular, for my character, Celeste in Big Little Lies, there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
