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V. S. Naipaul Quotes

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

V. S. Naipaul

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Live Culture You Country Within

Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they'll never know what it's like to be raised by someone who's still being raised.

Jermaine Fowler

People Society Jealous Think Someone

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

Andrea Bocelli

Music Healing Me Baby Thought Born

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

John Henrik Clarke

Mother Relationship Child People

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Matt Ross

Work Me I Can Sound Sing Incredible

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women School Law Late Class Over

When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.

Michael Korda

Children Death Survive Someone You

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Jean Cocteau

Poetry Poet He Listens Invent

I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.

Dilshad Vadsaria

New York Me Theatre World Think New

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

David Stern

Money Happy Making Money You Keep

I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive.

Christopher Monckton

I Am Will Global Warming Global

I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.

Colman Domingo

Doing Nervous Dancing Involved Very

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing Details You Around Public