Citazioni Tom Bodett (original) (raw)
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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 for.
Happiness Happy Love
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Education Encouraging Life
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Differences Funny Inspirational
The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.
Media People Thinking
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
New Friends New Friendship
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 wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
Alaska Mountain School
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 need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.
Feet Needs Space
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 when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.
Believe Radio Real
In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.
America Anything Is Possible Impossible
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
Pretension Self Thinking
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.
Differences Home Leaving
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 like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.
Passion Stars Thinking
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 you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.
Mean Taken Thinking
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 humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.
Insulting Sarcasm Sound
Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.
Mines Stories Struggle
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 like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.
Alaska Growing Up Kids
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 be in school to do it.
Needs School Writing
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.
Alaska Petitions Roots
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 by the only man who could tell it.
Alaska Men Three
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
Broadcasting Common Form
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