Wilford Brimley Quotes

#1. Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Wilford Brimley

#2. And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

Sanford I. Weill

#3. The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

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#4. You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

Roger Waters

#5. I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

Wilford Brimley

#6. Eyllwe," Chaol breathed. "Send word to Eyllwe. Tell them to hold on - tell them to prepare." Perhaps it was the light, perhaps it was the cold, but Aedion could have sworn there were tears in the captain's eyes as he said, "Tell them it's time to fight back.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Kurt Cobain

#8. My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.

Wilford Brimley

#9. Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

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#10. I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

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#11. I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

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#12. Lord of the Muck.

Ottilie Weber

#13. I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

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#14. I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

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#15. Then we die, Elfeya, If we're lucky.

C.L. Wilson

#16. Tenors get women by the score.

James Joyce

#17. Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious!

Doug Stanhope

#18. I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

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#19. Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

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#20. No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

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#21. What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

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#22. Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Michael Moore

#23. I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

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#24. I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

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#25. Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

Madeleine Albright

#26. I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

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#27. I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

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#28. I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

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#29. I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

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#30. I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Wilford Brimley