Paul Theroux Quotes
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character.
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I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
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Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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Who are we? We are people who love drugs. They say we like drugs. It's true. Especially marijuana. Marijuana has been good for us. God put it here for a reason and we need to find a way to live with it in peace. But we are also people who hate drugs. We have suffered from overdoses and addiction. But we know that drugs are here to stay, and prohibition and the criminal justice system is not the way to deal with it. And we are people who don't care about drugs. People who care about the Constitution, who care about 2.2 million Americans behind bars, who care about fundamental rights and freedoms.
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I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
