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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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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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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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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...be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down...
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
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Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
