William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
