Random Quote
My dad of course like a lot of Asian parents wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then when I first said I wanted to run for office he thought that was absolutely insane.
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call but I wrote letters I wrote short stories I wrote books.
Quotes By Paul Theroux
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel...
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation and travel so...
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Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're...
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I...
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When I began to make some money I really wanted to have a home.
Quotes About Peace
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When I sing I have a sense of peace I feel like my brain turns off and I...
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The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.
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As they say one thing led to another and ultimately the British and Irish...
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On Memorial Day I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were...
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Treaties of peace made after war are entrusted to individuals to negotiate...
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I therefore declare that if you wish any remission of the taxation which...
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President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for...
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I came here as a practical man to talk not simply on the question of peace...
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We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
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From 1836 down to last year there is no proof of the Government having any...