Buzz Osborne Quotes

I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Rock

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Different
  • American
  • History

• Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • You
  • Never

• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Different
  • War
  • Politics

• I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • God
  • Me
  • Feelings

• I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.

  

  Alberto Gonzales
  • War

• Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees - that is to say, friars.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Stupid

• Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Reality
  • Church
  • Catholic

• It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Cool

• One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.

  

  Aileen Quinn
  • Spanish
  • Latin

• I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Home
  • Car
  • Ride

• I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • People

• Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Nature
  • Night
  • Light

• A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Nature
  • Gentleman
  • Sensation

• I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.

  

  Buzz Osborne