William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.
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I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.
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You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
