V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
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Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
