N. Scott Momaday Quotes
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
Quotes to Explore
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
