Paul Theroux Quotes
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
