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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: trinidadian
Birth: August 17, 1932

Topics

Work People Ideas Expectations Self

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Always Seen Drumming Anyway Lyrical

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

John C. Maxwell

Live Learn You Will Really

My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.

Hope Law Stop Band Sound Question

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good Leader Time End Priorities You

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.

Stupid World Just Because Australia

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

Time Baby Door Parent Learn Body

Never crowd a pan with too many mushrooms. They give off an enormous amount of moisture. And there's nothing worse than a braised mushroom, other than a lot of braised mushrooms.

Nothing Never Mushroom Mushrooms Off

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.

Day Support Survive Die Understand

As I've got older, I've become more intrigued about formations, tactics, I listen a lot more to the manager's team talk; as a kid, if I'm honest, I never listened.

Team Manager Become Talk Never Kid

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

History Facts Forget Little Where

God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Father God Him Image Divine Mankind

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Romantic World Books Teenager Total

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