Paul Theroux Quotes

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

Paul Theroux

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PeaceI AmThinkBadBelievingWay

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

BusinessWarCombinationSport

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

John Podhoretz

NowPraiseUsBarack ObamaLet Us

You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.

Steven Van Zandt

YouBackStreetBandTraceRascals

The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.

Robin Sloan

MeFeelBoredomPhoneSometimesGet

Temerity is not always successful.

Livy

AlwaysSuccessful

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Donella Meadows

LifeOceanPeopleDeepFishBurn

I want the white people to understand my people.

Chief Joseph

PeopleWhiteWantUnderstand

I wrote 'Flatliner' with Dierks Bentley in mind in 2013.

Cole Swindell

MindWrote

Not one person has ever sent me a drink because I was Caroline in 'Nick and Norah.' People reference it; people say really nice things about it, but I was sure I would be getting more free drinks.

Ari Graynor

PeopleMeFreePersonNiceSay

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

Armie Hammer

CharacterMeControlDriveChance

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

Arundhati Roy

HistoryPeopleAmericaYouKnowSay

The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.

Mark Romanek

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