Paul Theroux Quotes
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.Paul Theroux
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
Pat Summitt -
It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
Zoey Deutch -
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Malcolm X
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
D. L. Hughley -
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Samuel Fuller -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
Rahul Dravid -
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A. -
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary Ackerman
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
A. Philip Randolph -
I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt -
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
Bailey Chase
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I thought that the Bulls were an undermanaged, under-operated team and that it could be a very successful franchise if run properly.
Jerry Reinsdorf -
I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to understand how much energy our modern lifestyles use, decide how much energy we would like to use in the future, and choose where we will get that energy from.
David J. C. MacKay -
Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.
Daniel Kahneman -
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
Lance Henriksen -
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
Paul Theroux