Paul Theroux Quotes
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.
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Lipstick is always in, whether it's matte, creamy, glossy, and so on.
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I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
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These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
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Good evening, daddy I know you’ve heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.
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You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
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MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.
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Agency is the technical term for the feeling of being in charge of your life: knowing where you stand, knowing that you have.
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It's only happened to me once crying in the end of the film - the end of Forrest Gump. I think it's sad because the moral of the film is that you can have no brain whatsoever and still make it in this world. That made me terribly depressed.
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I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
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Photographers are failed painters.
