Buck Brannaman Quotes
There have been so many times over the years where people have said "Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse" and I'll say "Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else."
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Go West, young man.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
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There have been so many times over the years where people have said "Man, I thought I was just coming to this deal to get a little handier with my horse" and I'll say "Well, in the beginning, I thought that's all you were coming for too. But it turns out it's about something else."
