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.V. S. Naipaul
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Gary Lineker -
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.
Pam Brown -
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!
Hansika Motwani -
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.
Edmund Hillary -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
Tamala Jones -
I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
Carl Spitteler -
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Eddi Reader -
In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz -
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Tamsin Egerton
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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?'
Pat Paulsen -
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.
Frances McDormand -
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.
Zach Braff -
There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.
Candace Bushnell -
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
Ovadia Yosef -
My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.
Clemantine Wamariya -
I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
Jayne Mansfield -
The Abolitionists were right in their attitude to the Church. Slavery and the Church were side by side: the Church was at peace with slavery: men were sold to build churches, women sold to pay missionaries, and children sold to buy Bibles. We did right to oppose it.
Frederick Douglass -
I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
Blair Underwood -
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
V. S. Naipaul