James Buchan Quotes
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.James Buchan
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
Larry Drake -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
Sally Phillips -
The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk -
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
Sam Brownback -
I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
Gabby Douglas
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
Damian Lewis -
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Gary Sinise -
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
Dane DeHaan -
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
Karl Abraham -
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
W. Averell Harriman
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My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.
Ellen Stofan -
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
Bob Newhart -
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'
Lorrie Moore -
I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
Imelda May -
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
James Thomson -
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.
James Buchan