Buck Baker Quotes
Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
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I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.
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Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest, pound-for-pound, ever. He fought most of his career with just one loss, and that was to me. He had 131 fights with one loss.
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
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In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
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That certainly isn't going on in the second and third quarter. So there are indications that the world is ready to start traveling again.
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Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.
