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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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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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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From day one, I have been told I am no different from the male astronauts. As a pilot, I flew in the sky. Now that I am an astronaut, I will fly in space.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'
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Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers - and viewers - to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.
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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.
