Paul Theroux Quotes

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Paul Theroux

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I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

John Burdett

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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Johann Arndt

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

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It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Ani DiFranco

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My last couple of films, 'ABCD 2' and 'Rock On 2,' didn't do as well as expected. It affected me quite a bit, but then easier said than done, I had to stop thinking about it and continue doing what I love doing best!

Shraddha Kapoor

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I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

Tom King

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Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

Mike Huckabee

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In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

Michael Welch

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Indigenous people all over the world take quite a lot of trouble with their hair and their clothes.

Michelle Paver

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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Today, most of the anti-Semitic bigotry is not coming from the Right. It's coming from the Left. We have to face it.

Corey Stewart

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A little personal trick: apply brown eyeliner throughout the day and then just add a little black over the top for a night look.

Coco Rocha

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