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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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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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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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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The global economy is in pretty good shape.
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For we love liberty just as we love peace.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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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.
