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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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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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
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Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
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My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
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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.
