“Life at Hoover’s sang in all of us without knowing we’d ever lose the song. But the song has dimmed into a memory of an era where hardship sculpted character and the resulting music spoke in a soothing voice you never saw coming. Country blood runs clean, and clean ain’t what this world sings no more.”
― From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor
― From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor
“When I set the hook on a nice fish, Gartside asked, “How far out was he?” “Just outside the mud line,” I told him. “That’s where I thought they’d be. Don’t be a barnacle. Keep covering ground after you land him.”
― On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast
― On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast
“myself—like Johnson, a solid hand at running the old Stata models—came to virtually identical conclusions writing for the online journal Quillette in 2021, noting that “between 2019—by no means a famously peaceful year—and 2020, homicides alone surged by 42 percent during the summer and [another] 34 percent during the fall.”34 Left-leaning magazines and journals like Vox largely attributed this trend to general chaos associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.35 However, I noted that an alternative explanation fits the data far better: crime leapt like 1990s Mike Jordan because many large police departments had their budgets cut, and almost all of them reeled in their stops dramatically.”
― Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula
― Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America's School Curricula
“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“I had come with one question for Cole. “What is it about the striped bass?” I asked. “The thing about the striped bass is that they’re beautiful. They’re also the wildest, biggest fish that’s inshore. And they’re very loyal. You can walk out to a salt marsh anywhere along the coast and catch one. They show up every year in the same spot, unlike the bluefish, which is evasive and mercurial. You develop an affection for a wild creature that comes to you, that puts itself in your environment. Stripers allow us to connect with the natural world. And they taste pretty damn good.”
― On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast
― On the Run: An Angler's Journey Down the Striper Coast
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