James L. Buckley Quotes

If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

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• Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  • Impossible

• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Care
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• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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  • Long
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• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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  • Relationship

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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  • Love
  • Film

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
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  • Time
  • Long

• If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
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• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
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  • Education
  • Technology

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
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• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

  

  Ted Rall
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• When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Work
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  • Girl

• Get the fuck out or I'll throw you out the window!

  

  Pete Stark

• I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
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  • Buddhism

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

  

  James L. Buckley
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  • Good
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