V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.V. S. Naipaul
Quotes to Explore
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer -
Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
Yair Lapid -
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
Harry Anderson -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
Frances Beinecke -
My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet -
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase -
Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
Carlton Cuse
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
Adam Clarke -
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
Uwe Boll -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
Maika Monroe -
I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
Francia Raisa
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller -
It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.
John B. Larson -
Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations on the atonement that Christ could have offered up a perfect act of penitence instead of punishment, and that this would have been an acceptable offering suitable to remit our sinfulness.
Oliver D. Crisp -
It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my children through this.
Paula Zahn -
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
Usher -
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V. S. Naipaul