Buck Brannaman Quotes
My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
Quotes to Explore
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
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What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.
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I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.
