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.
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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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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
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The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.
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My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.
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See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.
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We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.
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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.
