Paul Theroux Quotes
A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
Paul Theroux
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
Patrick Collison
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
Ma Jun
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
Rani Mukerji
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
Ma Jun
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The real enemy of the Christian Right is not Americans United or the ACLU; it is themselves.
Barry W. Lynn
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
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When you know that you have to flirt with someone, when you have a date or that you're looking for someone to love or for someone to love you back, you always try to show something better than yourself. Because you want to show off, obviously, you want to show the best side of you. Instead, when you have nothing to lose, you're just yourself. And maybe this is the best part, when another person can fall in love with you.
Alessandra Mastronardi
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A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
Paul Theroux