Paul Theroux Quotes

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

Paul Theroux

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The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Jim Gerlach

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I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.

John Morgridge

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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

Matt Taibbi

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I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

Steve Ells

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Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.

Russell Simmons

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If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Martin Parr

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I would give anything to sit down with my maternal grandmother and have a cup of tea and play Scrabble. She died 10 years ago.

Julia Stiles

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I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.

Dianna Agron

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I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Brian Greene

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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

Thomas Friedman

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A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

Richard Flanagan

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In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

Richard Dawkins

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