"I come from very common stock, and I've……" — Tom Bodett
"I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting."
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22 Quotes by Tom Bodett
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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…
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to…
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I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
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It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live…
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You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
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Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to…
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For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and…
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I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to…
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I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is -…
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Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license…
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People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want.…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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