James Buchan Quotes
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
