Buck Brannaman Quotes
The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.
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'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
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Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.
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The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
