William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.
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For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.
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'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.
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If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
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My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
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God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
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I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
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Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.
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Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.
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No yesterdays on the road.
