V. S. Pritchett Quotes
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
