Paul Theroux Quotes
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
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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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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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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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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
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Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.
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Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
