Buck Brannaman Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.
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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in the nature of consciousness. Why do we make art? And what can we expect to have in common with other creatures in universe?
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I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.
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Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
