V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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I watch a lot of football.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
