Paul Theroux Quotes
A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
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There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.
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I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.
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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
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A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
