Buddy Wakefield Quotes

The future gets no say in who we are.

Buddy Wakefield

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • House

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Generation
  • Gone
  • Shoulders

• I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Believe
  • Understand

• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Training
  • Hard
  • Been

• If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Small

• What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Value
  • Rich
  • Surprised

• A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Day

• I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Happy
  • Corruption
  • Be Happy

• Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Gone
  • Olympic
  • Medals

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • May
  • Hope
  • Past

• We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• «We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • True
  • Political

• If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

  

  John Banville
  • Why
  • Nice

• One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • World
  • Politics
  • Conflict

• I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

  

  Ken Burns
  • People
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they're worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Food
  • Chocolate

• I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Home
  • Loving
  • Went Away

• The future gets no say in who we are.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Future