Paul Theroux Quotes
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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A good leader must be fair.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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I have a full Tuscan lunch and dinner every day in my home; my husband's a fantastic chef.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
