Paul Theroux Quotes
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.Paul Theroux
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
Ed Markey -
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Xi Jinping -
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus -
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson -
I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
Cara Delevingne -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
Ian MacKaye -
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver -
There is not love where there is no will.
Indira Gandhi -
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz -
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein -
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood -
My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
Jacob Dalton -
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
L. Neil Smith -
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
Zoe Kazan
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We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.
Christopher McDougall -
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
Eric Metaxas -
I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
Karlie Kloss -
Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.
Debi Gliori -
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.
Paul Theroux