V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I've had curly hair for years, and I never wore it curly. I didn't know what to do with it.
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In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
