William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith -
The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
Samora Machel -
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
AJ McLean -
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
Salman Rushdie -
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
Carl Paladino
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini -
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner -
The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
Vanessa Marcil
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
I. King Jordan -
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid -
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
Barry Sanders -
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh
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A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.
David Lubar -
History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
Louis Fischer -
When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an old man asks you to take him home, you have to do it.
John Patrick Shanley -
I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
Kate Moss -
Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis -
At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
William Lewis Trogdon