Paul Theroux Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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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.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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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.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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They hate whom they fear.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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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.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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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!'
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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?
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I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.
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Heavy metal drives me bonkers, it makes me want to vomit, heavy metal really is a pile of puke.
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
