Paul Theroux Quotes
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
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The minute the money is more, you lose your control, so then there's no point.
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Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way.
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Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
