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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People will love you and support you when it's beneficial.
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Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... It is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
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We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
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When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
