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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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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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's very likely that, if you're designing a system based on historical data, you're going to be perpetuating those biases.
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My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take.
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The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.
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The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.
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When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
