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"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."
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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."

"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."

"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."

"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me."


"I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch."


"What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning."


"I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish."


"I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in."


"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."


"I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us."


"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."


"I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks."
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