Louis L'Amour Quotes
I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
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When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint 'blue ribbon' commissions.
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Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.
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I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.
