Buddy Wakefield Quotes
I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.
Quotes to Explore
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I was raised on NBC television.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
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I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.
