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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With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
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When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
