V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
