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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Speak Feel I Can Authority

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

Children People Face Back Two Up

I've always gravitated toward men who sort of kind of eclipsed me in some way. And I think that it's because I have this need to be better.

Men Me Think Better Kind Way

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

Leadership Freedom Decisions Feel

I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

Man Adventure Angry Start Young Out

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Parents Values More Something Scale

I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.

Amanda de Cadenet

Space Someone Creating Try Never

Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument.

New Say Smell Sound Piano Who

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

Sad People Me Trying Down New

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

Humanity Person Way Once His While

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

Woman World Black Hands You Gay

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

Over Years Up Been Rubbish Much

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

Good Know Planet Must Yoga About

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