Paul Theroux Quotes
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
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It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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I eat a lot of pasta. We eat relatively healthy. I don't eat fast food, mostly home-cooked stuff. Chicken. Salads. Stuff like that. Oatmeal for breakfast. A big dinner.
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I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
