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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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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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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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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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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We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.
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There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
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I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.
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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.
