Paul Theroux Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
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When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
