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.
B. F. Skinner -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant -
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. Thompson -
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
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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.
Vanessa Bayer -
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.
Barry Sanders -
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.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Carl Barks -
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.
Kate Christensen -
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.
Naomi Watts
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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.
Adam Lambert -
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.
Aasif Mandvi -
I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
Vanessa Mae -
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria de los Angeles -
I shake hands on the first date.
Nargis Fakhri
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Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.
Ashley Thomas -
I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.
Kyle Mooney -
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
Kofi Annan -
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.
Common -
It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.
Donald Driver -
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Paul Theroux