Paul Theroux Quotes
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I like to discover new things.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I've built my wardrobe color palette around red, so I'm happy with it, but I do get pangs when I see beautiful brunettes. I've already been blue, green, black, and blonde.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Pagers are my life-I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
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Modern man - although a unity of body, mind, and soul - exhibits a changed consciousness: every expression of his life has today a different aspect, that is, an aspect more positively abstract.
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I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the stuff I choose to share.
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The life of men is painful.
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Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
