Charles Goodnight Quotes
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
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O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.
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Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.
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Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time.
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I haven't lost my blues roots.
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As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
