V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'
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I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
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I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
