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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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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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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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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A cat only has itself.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
