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ALEXANDER THEROUX On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairl... LOUIS THEROUX But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - b... LOUIS THEROUX She said. "I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days an... LOUIS THEROUX I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said. Hm, I'd never ... LOUIS THEROUX Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer LOUIS THEROUX It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close ... LOUIS THEROUX The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with... LOUIS THEROUX How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included. LOUIS THEROUX Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound... PHYLLIS THEROUX September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows,... ALEXANDER THEROUX Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that ... PHYLLIS THEROUX My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder... PAUL DANO We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ... PAUL TILLICH Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. PAUL BRYANT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop... PAUL DIRAC I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ... PAUL DIRAC It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and... PAUL DIRAC I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo... PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n... PAUL DIRAC Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. PAUL DIRAC Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on... PAUL HOLLYWOOD As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi... PAUL MANAFORT What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. PAUL SAMUELSON No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ... CHRIS PAUL The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and... JEAN PAUL If my son is happy, then I am happy. CHRIS PAUL A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. PAUL VALERY Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending... RAND PAUL I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie... RAND PAUL Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? RAND PAUL People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist... RAND PAUL I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i... RAND PAUL Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don... RAND PAUL You can't solve a dignity problem with military force. RAND PAUL As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances. RAND PAUL