Paul Theroux Quotes

People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Man

• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Experience
  • Player
  • Better

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• 'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • May
  • Look
  • Easy

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Power
  • Fight
  • Stand

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black
  • Style
  • Cool

• They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Powerful
  • Reason
  • Building

• I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smack people in the face and say, 'Wake up!'

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• People see a hungry face, and they want to feed it; that's a natural response.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People