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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To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.
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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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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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Things are simple when you're going to die.
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I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.
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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.
