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.
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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.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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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.
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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.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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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.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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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.
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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.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My job means I work late.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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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.
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Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
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A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or read cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.
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I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.
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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
