George W. Buck Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.
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Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.
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When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.
