V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
Carles Puigdemont -
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts -
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams -
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
P. J. Harvey -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
Ram Charan -
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert -
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath -
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
Leon Trotsky -
I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.
Carlene Carter -
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
Albert Bushnell Hart -
I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims -
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V. S. Naipaul