George W. Buck Quotes
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.
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The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I love a good non sequitur.
