William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
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My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
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I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
