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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We meet so many people, and it's interesting when you meet someone who you really connect with. They have their own energy, their own personality, and that is something so different than just beauty. So that really drives the decision for who to work with on a campaign.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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My love life is not a priority.
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Surrealism was a genuine addition to the repertoire of avant-garde arts, its novelty attested by the ability to produce shock, incomprehension, or what amounted to the same thing, a sometimes, embarrassed laughter, even among the older avant-garde.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
