William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
Mallory Jansen -
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
Hailey Bieber -
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith -
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith -
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
Laura Prepon
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin -
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde -
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden -
Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
Gary Zukav -
I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
Oliver North -
At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
Gary Johnson
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
Naftali Bennett -
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
Harold Prince -
My job means I work late.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham -
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Tayari Jones
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
Willem de Kooning -
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.
Sean William Scott -
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
Eve Arnold -
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
Emily Rodda -
I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
William Lewis Trogdon