V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
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To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
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An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
