James L. Buckley Quotes
The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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I just can't read music.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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I think I lead a really real life.
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...that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
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I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.
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When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.
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The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.
