V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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I'm very content.
