V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'V. S. Naipaul
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
Natalie Cole -
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
A. N. Wilson -
I like to keep my private life private.
Cara Delevingne -
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
Hamza Yusuf -
Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
Barton Gellman -
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
Zig Ziglar -
I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
Imogen Heap -
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
Gary Johnson -
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
Nate Silver -
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
Karl Liebknecht -
I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell -
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis -
'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
Mahershala Ali -
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
Gene Cernan -
We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume responsibility for our words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
Bill Clinton -
The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.'
V. S. Naipaul