Paul Theroux Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
Hanna Rosin
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
Fedor Emelianenko
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
Zig Ziglar
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
Edmund S. Muskie
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman Rushdie
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Ida B. Wells
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
Namie Amuro
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
Tamron Hall
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
Nancy Duarte
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
Jaan Tallinn
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
Omari Hardwick
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
Gavin Newsom
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
P. G. Wodehouse
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The principle of this art as Mondrian proposes his view on modern art is not a negation of matter, but a great love of matter, whereby it is seen in the highest, most intense manner possible, and depicted in the artistic creation.
Piet Mondrian
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I love acting.
Ed Asner
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Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Andrea Corr
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Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
Will Self
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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
Paul Theroux