Buddy Wakefield Quotes
The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
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I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.
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I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
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The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
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I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other.
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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
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Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
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No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
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I am not evading tax in any way, shape or form. Now of course I am minimizing my tax and if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.
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I had people coming up and telling me they hadn't voted in twenty-five years, but they were turning out for me on Tuesday. I still see the face of this kid who approached me in the little town of Willmar. 'Jesse,' he said, 'you are us.'
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'
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I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.
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If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.
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Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
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The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.
