Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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I used to tell my mother, 'I'm going to have to get a real job one day.' You keep saying this will end one day, but people still call us up and ask us to sing. It's truly amazing.
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If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
