Paul Theroux Quotes

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Paul Theroux

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• We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Show
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Always
  • Never
  • Boxes

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

  B. B. King
  • Die
  • Heaven
  • Go

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Beach
  • Doctor

• I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Because
  • Guess
  • Fascination

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Day

• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Song
  • Moon
  • Coffee

• Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Nature
  • Revolutionary

• You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • Government

• Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Long
  • Game
  • Society

• There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Looks

• I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Learning
  • Existence
  • Changes

• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • Big
  • Seeing

• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  

  Paul Theroux