V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even use it. It can get kind of frustrating. But I don't regret that I decided to become an actor. Besides, if I don't like it at any time, I can stop.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
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Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.
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I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.