Paul Theroux Quotes
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.
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I have some very dear friends I stalk consistently when I come home.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
