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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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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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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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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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 only cook when I'm in love.
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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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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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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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Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.
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Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
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More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
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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.
