Paul Theroux Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
Victoria Pratt -
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
Manny Pacquiao -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. King -
They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
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 -
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
Damon Galgut -
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 -
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 -
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell -
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 -
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 -
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
Rand Paul
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
Andrew Bird -
I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.
Jerry Jones -
I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.
Esmeralda Santiago -
If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
It was good while it was good.
Jonathan Lethem -
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux