Ed Buckner Quotes
Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
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Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
