Paul Theroux Quotes
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.
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Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
