James Buchan Quotes
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
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Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it. 'It’s all about moderation,' he said, 'Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions.' (p. 152).
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
