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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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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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There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.
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Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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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.
