Paul Theroux Quotes
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures.
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I just loved EDM because I felt like it inspired dance and movement.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
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My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
