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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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 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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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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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.
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Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.
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My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
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From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
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I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language
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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.
