Paul Theroux Quotes

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Paul Theroux

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• It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• You can be politically correct if you want, but are you trying to say we don't have a problem? ... Most Muslims, like most everything, I mean, these are fabulous people... But we certainly do have a problem, I mean, you have a problem throughout the world. ... It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• They played better offensively and we did a bad job guarding, ... We had a chance to put them away but we have been going through this the last couple of games, having leads and giving them up.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Bad

• We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

  

  Matthias Schoenaerts
  • Life

• Music’s playin’ up and down the blockMostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern RockIt’s our little piece of paradise way out here in the woodsThere is always somethin’ goin’ on down in the trailerhood.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.

  

  Penny Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business

• An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

  

  Paul Theroux
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