Paul Theroux Quotes

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

Paul Theroux

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MenDecisionsBadLateMakeVery

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BestQualityTasteAverageCannot

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

John Hawkes

YouWantGetJustJobsTimes

I have started or run several companies and spent time with dozens of entrepreneurs over the years. Virtually none of them, in my experience, made meaningful personnel or resource-allocation decisions based on incentives or policies.

Andrew Yang

TimeExperienceDecisionsRunOver

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

Shirley Chisholm

FearPoliticalMouthProfessional

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Rory Bremner

PoliticsMovingProblemTargetNew

I shined shoes; I did windows.

Ruby Dee

ShoesWindowsDid

I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.

LP

CrazyWeekArtistGoMy OwnTry

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

Lucian Freud

WorkDriveHimObsessionPainterHe

Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

Loretta Swit

WomenMenWarRememberKorean War

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

WorkLoveDayMeDoingActing

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

Derek Blasberg

LifePeopleCityFastMannersUp

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

PeopleMeTeamTalkKnowingTease

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