Pat Buckley Quotes
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
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No man is infallible.
