V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
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If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
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The world is always in movement.
