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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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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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.
