Paul Theroux Quotes

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

Paul Theroux

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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. Michael Straczynski
- Kids
- Think
- Dance
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Sam Walton
- Always
- System
- Driven
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

Karin Slaughter
- Up
- Think
- Evil
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

J. Courtney Sullivan
- Long
- School
- High
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

Pat Robertson
- America
- Think
- Know
From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

Gavin O'Connor
- Up
- Parents
- Dad