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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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.
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The world would be entirely different if it were run by women. I think it is true that we are more seeking consensus and don't have such big egos and have a variety of different ways of trying to get along. But anybody who says that the world would be better has forgotten high school. It depends on who the women are.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
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No yesterdays on the road.
