Louis L'Amour Quotes
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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By interlinking causes, by searching always for unity in the face of superficial diversity, modern scientific explanations prize depth above breadth. A deep and narrow theory can, and often does, graduate to become a deep and broad one. A broad and shallow theory never does.
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Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
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I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.
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When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme caution when handling the stuff: with masks, gloves, gowns, goggles, all needed to protect him from danger. He then drills your teeth and rams the mixture into your cavities, whereupon it becomes miraculously, instantly safe!
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
