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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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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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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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
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If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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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.
