Paul Theroux Quotes
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Don't let the American twang fool you. I still say, 'I'm going home,' when I come to England, and I love a good old cup of PG Tips with a Jaffa Cake.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
