Buddy Wakefield Quotes
What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive of pilot lights guided through a single tambourine across the day we met in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
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When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.
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The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.
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If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we're making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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What children and the landing of a plane most have in common is that they are best made by a line drive of pilot lights guided through a single tambourine across the day we met in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.
