Alan Buckley Quotes
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.
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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.
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Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
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I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
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We didn't look like scoring, although we looked like we were going to get a goal.
