V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My hunger is always there.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
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I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
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I surround myself with positive, happy people. And I always try to balance things that I have to do with things that I want to do.
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They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
