Paul Theroux Quotes
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.
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The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.
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With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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I hope all of them have got on a piece of paper tucked away somewhere that their goal for the tour is to make the 22. They have all got the ability to do it, they are all good young players with plenty of potential.
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I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
