Peter Buck Quotes

I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.

Peter Buck R.E.M.

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• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

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• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

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• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  

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• My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

  

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• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

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• I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

  

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• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

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• Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

  

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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

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• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

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• I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

  

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• It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.

  

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• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

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• Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

  

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• I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Sports
  • Seriously
  • Throw