Paul Theroux Quotes

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.

Paul Theroux

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I've always felt the connection between clothing and confidence, which is why I probably was such a shopaholic.

Jennifer Hyman

ConfidenceConnectionWhyClothing

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

Megyn Kelly

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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

John Muir

LifeGodRestMy LifeStudyDevote

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

Matt Groening

FunnyWorldSayWillWayTry

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Michael Azerrad

MusicPowerBelieveThinkYouWay

I guess I'm kind of a mutt. I was born in the U.S., my parents are from Mexico, and I grew up in Switzerland. It's weird because I sound American, but I spell theater 'theatre' with the 'r' before the 'e'.

Roberto Aguire

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In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.

Maryanne Trump Barry

DreamsBestImmigrationTradition

The world will always love Cuban music, however it changes.

Ry Cooder

LoveMusicWorldWillChangesCuban

Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it!

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

DeathWelcomeInevitableKnowNow

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Jay McInerney

HopePeopleMeThinkTryFraud

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorldComputersWindowsBecomeGaze

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Jon Meacham

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