Vern Buchanan Quotes
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.
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I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
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I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan; I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.
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It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.
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I've spent my life playing music.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
