V. S. Naipaul Quotes
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
Dambisa Moyo
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
Taylor Sheridan
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Queen Elizabeth II
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
Zach Galligan
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.
Lysander Spooner
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
Manny Farber
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Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
Molly Ivins
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
