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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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.