Bill Kurtis Quotes
I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
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I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.
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I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.
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I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.
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It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
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I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
