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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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
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
Jackson Katz
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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
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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.
Frances McDormand
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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
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
Dale Archer
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Mass, time, magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.
Jacob Bronowski
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I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
Alfie Allen
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
Zachary Taylor
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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.
V. S. Naipaul
