Tom Bodett Quotes

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• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
• The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope…
• I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
• I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the…
• You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
• Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to…
• For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not…
• I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't…
• I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them…
• Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists…
• People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes…
• Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry…
• Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told…
• Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
• Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?
• Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.
• Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
• Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

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