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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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
