V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Quotes to Explore
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
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Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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Am I eating chicken or tuna?
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
