James Buchan Quotes
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?
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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.
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I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year's Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
