V. S. Pritchett Quotes
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.
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Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
