James Buchan Quotes
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
Quotes to Explore
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
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We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.
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In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.
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Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
