Paul Theroux Quotes
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
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.
Ed Koch -
Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
Usain Bolt -
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.
J. D. Hayworth -
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.
Sally Mann -
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
Salman Rushdie
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
Nas -
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Wayne McGregor -
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince
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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.
Edmund Phelps -
I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
Maeve Binchy -
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.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud -
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.
Tatiana Maslany -
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
G. Willow Wilson
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'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.
Jacqueline Woodson -
The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
Ueda Akinari -
'Gutur Gu' is a silent comedy, which I had never done. I wanted to do something out of the box. It's exciting, tough, and fun. Dialogues are very important for actors, and to emote without them took some getting used to. It's giving me scope to learn a lot.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy -
When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Paul Theroux