V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
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As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
