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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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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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.
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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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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.
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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.
