Paul Theroux Quotes
The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
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America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
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Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
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The place that interests me most, actually, is the United States. I've realized that I haven't traveled much in the States. There's a lot to see.
