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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Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.
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I've been a grant seeker all my life, but when I apply for one and get it, that means someone else doesn't. I didn't want to be a part of that anymore. I wanted to contribute to that pool and make it bigger.
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I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)
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Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.
