George W. Buck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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War is not civilized.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
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With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
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For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.
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You can get to everywhere from almost anywhere.
