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.Paul Theroux
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
Adam Lambert -
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine -
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Lamar Alexander -
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon -
Revenge doesn't stop.
Daniel Craig
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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.
Kaley Cuoco -
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer -
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.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Kari Matchett -
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
Vincent Cassel
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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.
Jack Adams -
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane -
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty -
I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
Mac Thornberry -
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.
Mahesh Babu -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
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I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
Manmohan Singh -
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
Asghar Farhadi -
I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.
Anzia Yezierska -
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey -
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.
Paul Theroux