Paul Theroux Quotes
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
Damien Hirst
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell
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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!'
Ed O'Neill
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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?
Karen Blixen
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Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.
Linda Thompson
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I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.
David Cheriton
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Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.
Jason Clarke
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac
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Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux
