"I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC."

-- Jim Lampley

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“We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'”
“We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to play them. I thought it would be a great teaching vehicle for a while, and it was, but it ended up as a performance song.”
“I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.”
“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]”
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
“It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.”
“How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?”
“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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