Paul Theroux Quotes
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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So the lover must struggle for words.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
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Freedom and idiots make a volatile mix. And the sad truth is that the idiocy quotient in the general population is alarmingly high.
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How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?
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There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.
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I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
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If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
